md17 - Slashdot User

Flash Builder, Linux and Winning the RIA War-> 0

Submitted by

Mike Slinn

on Thursday June 18 2009, @03:53PM

Mike Slinn writes "O'Reilly's InsideRIA site has a story on Adobe's apparent lack of a Linux strategy, and how they are conceptually challenged regarding how to address the developer community. Ted Buntel, Adobe Sr. Product Manager for Flash Builder has responded. Disclaimer: I am the author of the rant."
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Comment: Adobe has a similar program for developers (Score 4, Informative) 204

by md17 on Tuesday April 07 2009, @05:16PM (#27496645) Attached to: Design Software Giants Target the Unemployed

Adobe recently announced a similar program but for software developers:
http://www.jamesward.com/blog/2009/04/03/free-flex-builder-for-unemployed-developers/

-James (Adobe)

Comment: Test YOUR Users (Score 4, Informative) 383

by md17 on Sunday February 22 2009, @11:22AM (#26948985) Attached to: Is Flash Really On 99% of Net Devices?

[I also posted a portion of this on the original site but thought it might also be useful here.]

Being a Technical Evangelist for Adobe I frequently get questioned about our published statistics. My response is that you should always test YOUR user base before you make a decision about building on any technology. And in most cases when companies do their own testing the results are within one percent of our published numbers. This is true for enterprise's, SMBs, media companies, etc. But occasionally I hear about some demographic where the numbers are totally off. For instance, if your user base is still working on green screens then you will find lower Flash Player penetration numbers there.

I think Slashdot should publish their stats about their users. It would be interesting to see what the Flash Player penetration is like with this demographic - especially considering I sometimes see Flash banner ads on Slashdot.

-James (Adobe)

Flex Builder for Linux-> 0

Submitted by

Calsar

on Tuesday October 02 2007, @09:19PM

Calsar writes "I'm at the Adobe Max in Chicago and they just announced that the alpha version of Flex Builder is available for Linux. You can download it now from Adobe Labs at http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flex/flexbuilder_linux/."
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Adobe to Open Source Flex.

Submitted by

derrida

on Monday April 30 2007, @04:26PM

derrida writes "Adobe Systems Incorporated announced on 4/26 plans to release source code for Adobe® Flex(TM) as open source. This initiative will let developers worldwide participate in the growth of the industry's most advanced framework for building cross-operating system rich Internet applications (RIAs) for the Web and enabling new Apollo applications for the desktop. The open source Flex SDK and documentation will be available under the Mozilla Public License (MPL)"

Adobe to Open Source Flex

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 26 2007, @12:11PM

An anonymous reader writes "Adobe Systems Incorporated today announced plans to release source code for Adobe Flex as open source. This initiative will let developers worldwide participate in the growth of the industry's most advanced framework for building cross-operating system rich Internet applications (RIAs) for the Web and enabling new Apollo applications for the desktop. The open source Flex SDK and documentation will be available under the Mozilla Public License (MPL)."

Adobe Open Sources Flex SDK Under MPL 134

Posted by kdawson on Thursday April 26 2007, @09:36AM
from the for-real dept.

andy_from_nc writes "Adobe announced that they are open sourcing their Flex SDK under the Mozilla Public License incrementally by December. This move comes on the heels of Microsoft's announcement of their Silverlight and Adobe's CEO's criticism of it. Adobe's action will likely please other open source developers who use Flex, like me, and offers hope that we'll see a full open source version of Flash one day. You can read Adobe's FAQ on the move as well."

Adobe to Open Source Flex

Submitted by syphax on Thursday April 26 2007, @09:32AM

syphax writes "This was a surprise, for me at least: From Adobe Labs: "Adobe is announcing plans to open source Flex under the Mozilla Public License (MPL). This includes not only the source to the ActionScript components from the Flex SDK, which have been available in source code form with the SDK since Flex 2 was released, but also includes the Java source code for the ActionScript and MXML compilers, the ActionScript debugger and the core ActionScript libraries from the SDK. The Flex SDK includes all of the components needed to create Flex applications that run in any browser — on Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux and on now on the desktop using "Apollo". ... "The source code for the Flex SDK will be available under the Mozilla Public License (MPL). The MPL will allow full and free access to the source code, allowing developers to download, extend, and contribute to the source code for the Flex compiler and framework classes. The Flex SDK will also be available under a commercial Adobe license. Offering a choice of licenses serves the needs of enterprise Flex customers and partners.""

Adobe's Flex goes Open Source

Submitted by

Organic Brain Damage

on Thursday April 26 2007, @09:06AM

Organic Brain Damage writes "Adobe release Flex SDK open sourced (how's that for a new verb?).

http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Flex:Open_Sou rce

more here: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Stewart/?p=353

Maybe it's a response to Silverlight from Microsoft? Will they make and sell Flex 3?"

Adobe to Open Source Flex

Submitted by

tsalaroth

on Thursday April 26 2007, @09:03AM

tsalaroth writes "Adobe has announce today that they will be releasing Flex under the Mozilla Public License (MPL). There is a press release at adobe.com.

Adobe is announcing plans to open source Flex under the Mozilla Public License (MPL). This includes not only the source to the ActionScript components from the Flex SDK, which have been available in source code form with the SDK since Flex 2 was released, but also includes the Java source code for the ActionScript and MXML compilers, the ActionScript debugger and the core ActionScript libraries from the SDK. The Flex SDK includes all of the components needed to create Flex applications that run in any browser — on Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux and on now on the desktop using "Apollo".
This means that at least one type of Flash is going to be open source. Does this mean a similar future for Flash?"