Intelligent Enterprise: Adobe one of the 12 companies that will matter the most to the intelligent enterprise in 2008!
Excerpt - “Adobe is the key company to watch in the race toward mastery of RIA/Web 2.0 development. Having acquired Macromedia and assimilated its technologies, Adobe has a strongly positioned client (Flash) on millions of computers, a corps of evolving development tools (Flex, AIR, ColdFusion) and an apparent willingness to embrace open-source approaches.”
For me personally, this is a nice win. Many of us have known for a long time that Adobe has a great set of technologies to make a real difference in enterprise applications. It’s nice to see it being acknowledged. I’m sure we’ll see more of this type of credit soon! Lots of cool stuff coming!
Want to learn more about RIA’s (Rich Internet Applications)? Are you wondering what the big deal is? I highly recommend the following:
- http://www.adobe.com/resources/business/rich_internet_apps/
- http://flex.org/
- http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/air/
- My Adobe LiveCycle articles
Don’t like to read? Ok, go to http://flex.org/showcase/ and check out a few of the RIA’s already live today!
Oh – and by the way – a little company named eBay is thinking about Adobe and RIA … They have launched a contest for the coolest Adobe Flash widget built on Flash or Flex. The prize is $10,000. More info at http://ebay.promotionexpert.com/widget_build_off_contest/comingsoon.html
