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Adobe Releases AIR Runtime for the Desktop, Opens Flex
2/25/2008
in Atlanta this week and in FITC Amsterdam.The company is working on several projects to improve the developer-designer workflow, most notably "Thermo" which was demoed at MAX in Chicago. "We don't have any plans to talk about Thermo at this point," Ludwig said.
"Right now between the Creative Suite and Flex Builder, there is a lot of interoperability added with Flex Builder 3 to make it easy to build the components and skins and visual elements in the Creative Suite products and easily transfer them into a Flex project," he said.
Meanwhile, Microsoft and Adobe are both chasing the RIA market. Microsoft is expected to announce beta 1 of its Flash competitor, Silverlight 2, in early March. The company also offers a designer-developer tool called Blend; "Thermo," according to some developers, is based on a similar concept. Last week, Microsoft made headlines by announcing its intention to allow developers to use key APIs to improve interoperability in heterogeneous environments.
"We've seen Microsoft make announcements around openness and interoperability in the past and it is very difficult to know whether the results of these announcements will be different," Ludwig said. "At Adobe, we think we've demonstrated our commitment as much as we've announced our commitment. That's an important part of our relationship with open communities."
Kathleen Richards is the senior editor of Redmond Developer News and Application Development Trends, online at ADTmag.com. You can contact Kathleen at krichards@1105media.com.
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