Submission + - How a Microsoft-Adobe Pact Could Impact Developers (infoworld.com)
snydeq writes: "Fatal Exception's Neil McAllister provides a developer perspective on recent Microsoft-Adobe talks. While an acquisition may not be in the offing, a renewed partnership seems certain, and the focus of this pact could very well be developer mind share. 'Adobe desperately wants to make greater inroads into the enterprise market with its authoring tools, particularly by catering to developers,' McAllister writes. Meanwhile, Microsoft has never really cracked the UI design market. 'By teaming up, Microsoft and Adobe could not only consolidate their respective designer and developer customer bases, they could also form a united front against Oracle, which has promised to integrate its JavaFX RIA technology more tightly with the Java platform.'"