Lots of dissenting opinions inside #adobe according to #appcelerator CEO (whose company has hired ex-Adobians)

exactly the message Adobe should be telling

"Let's be clear: It's fine to say that Flash is flawed; it is. (You know who'd agree? The Flash team.) It's fine to hope for alternatives to take root. (Competition makes everyone better.) But let's also be honest and say that Flash is the reason we all have fast, reliable, ubiquitous online video today. It's the reason that YouTube took off & video consumption exploded four years ago. It's the reason we have Hulu, Vimeo, and all the rest--and the reason that people now watch billions of videos per day (and nearly 10 hours apiece per month) online. Without it, we'd all still be bumbling along." - love or hate Flash, and i fall into neither bucket, it should be given its due. compete with it, criticize it for not being open/standards/etc enough, all fine.

more concerns re: Adobe and the web

finally! 64 bit builds for Linux. YouTube and Hulu on the workstation! Solaris too, interestingly.

"I can completely relate to what Stephen is asking for. It's far simpler than the problems a persistence technology like Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Gears is trying to tackle. But ultimately, thanks in part to Gears and similar technologies from Adobe (NSDQ: ADBE), Apache, Oracle, and Sun, we know more is possible. So, why accept less?" - because it's likely to arrive far more quickly ;)

"I really think Adobe has very exciting technology for building RIAs and recommend people familiarize themselves with Flex. You will probably quickly get a good feeling for what use-cases you'd want to use Flex in and when Ajax. In fact, you are even able to use both within the same Web application."

brilliant post. i'd argue with bits - the assertion that richer environments = better UIs, for example - but the general point is well made and well taken. i'll need to comment on this.

interesting and creative news from Adobe

how big is the download now?

interesting. i think some of these objections are questionable and less than tangible, but the point is well taken. still, think what Apple could do with unfettered access to Adobe's dev/designer community.

interesting counterpoints to some of the RIA arguments coming out of Adobe, Microsoft et al

"I have no idea how extensive the AIR APIs are, whether they are sandboxed or whether they provide full access to all the APIs like our Moonlight Full API provides, but you can build some cute desktop applications with it."

"With the applications on top, I think we can really help with AIR and bring a lot of applications to Linux where people developing those apps will not even expect that they will run on Linux, but it will just work." - assuming that AIR for Linux is avail

"We noted that [AIR's] lack of support for exposing native libraries...imposes serious limitations on scalability. Using embedded WebKit components in native GTK and Qt applications is an approach that offers more flexibility and permits broad use of nati

"Perhaps the biggest news is that we hired Codeweavers to make Photoshop CS and CS2 work better under Wine. Photoshop is one of those applications that Desktop linux users are constantly clamoring for, and we're happy to say they work pretty well now."

Senor Shankland's year in review piece, vis a vis open source

Webrunner rebadged as Prism. interesting how oppositional they set themselves up vs AIR/Silverlight. it's true, of course, but more explicit than i expected.

this is the kind of quote i love to see. obviously Matthias has been talking to my colleagues ;)

halfway though and it is indeed solid

Adobe trotted out just such a customer for me last week. more on this later

hell, i'll give it a whirl

Microsoft's Integrated Innovation argument in Adobe clothes: while there are grains of truth to the argument, i think it overemphasizes the advantages and underemphasizes the costs

no Linux version? ah, it's AIR - no wonder

Marc with some kind words for my RIA thoughts and insights on the opportunities represented by the differing approaches

" 'The web just got richer.' Well, somebody’s getting richer, but I doubt it’s gonna be the web."

Ted's educated opinion on what is without question significant news from the Adobe gang; Flex is open source

"In RedMonk’s experience, Connect is the easiest to use of the many desktop sharing services we have to use daily (WebEx, GoToMeeting, and occasionally, Microsoft LiveMeeting)." - i love Breeze/Connect, great tool - even on Linux

been thinking about this issue a bit following chats with the RedMonkers that attended Adobe's last show, and i think Michael's correct here - they will increasingly be at odds

an Adobe response to Ted's post

Cote's right: these are the concerns that many have with respect to Adobe, and they'll need to be addressed - great piece by Ted

great news; hope this comes through apt shortly

"What we’re seeing with Eclipse is tremendous innovation; I think the Microsoft tools have a bit more polish but there’s a lot more innovation in Eclipse." - interesting feedback from Adobe on Eclipse

Adobe's Barnaby on Startup Camp

the Adobe folks have been busy, haven't they?

"Also, the Adobe Breeze facility works like a charm. I highly recommend it, if you are thinking of doing your own webinars." - as someone who sits on a *lot* of webinars, Breeze (now Connect Professional) is still the best service - even on Linux

"And now Adobe Systems wants to replicate its success in video space in the Voice over the Internet (VoIP) arena, making it easy to embed voice into web applications." - interesting

Amazon's online video services arrives...and it's only for Flash 8; this is a perfect example of why the Adobe situation is frustrating to many of us

gotta love the Adobe guys using Gentoo as the build server

i haven't talked to Adobe about this news yet, but the last i had spoken with them they claimed to be *for* Microsoft supporting PDF

Adobe's Bill McCoy doesn't fully buy my arguments vis a vis the importance of the ODF; he makes some good points, but i think he undersells the value of the "grease"

we want Duane! we want Duane! (via Bray)

Sutor on the Open Documnt / Open Office XML divide; agree with some, but not all

good piece by IDC on Metro; agree with nearly all of it

this is a big, big deal

a Gnome-r's thoughts on Adobe's Acrobat on Linux efforts

why should Adobe care about Linux as a platform? because it can lose them audiences, and important ones

kudos to MSFT for relaxing their grip on some of the most important file formats in the world

how to make Adobe load faster (via useful)

quark/adobe killer coming out of MS? wouldn't be surprised