Adobe Apollo Public Alpha is Launched!
Both Adobe and Macromedia are (were) known to be the producers to the best digital publishing software. Their variety of tools cover areas from web creation to image manipulation to animation design to video editing and to server side applications. Products like “Photoshop”, “Flash”, “Dreamweaver”, “Firworks”, “Illustrator”, “Premiere”, and “ColdFusion” have been around since the early stages of Internet. I would say most people whom is doing graphic design, web construction or multimedia developments must have used at the least one of their products.
Ever sine Adobe bought Macromedia in the year 2005, thousands of developers around the world have been wondering, guessing, betting on what's going to be the new product line from the joint corporation. The logical action would be continuing the strong products from each company and abandon or combine the weaker products from each company. The new line of products will also define the marketing direction of Adobe whom is the giant of RIA (Rich Internet Application) authoring tool provider.
Yesterday (Sunday, March 18th, 2007) Adobe launched the Apollo alpha software to the developers' community. It is the new line of products from Adobe to enhance none browser based RIA development. The released package include the Apollo runtime environment as well as an SDK and other associated developer tools. It supports developments using Flex, along with the promise of supporting (X)HTML-based applications in the next release (Adobe Apollo Beta). This means the developers can use Adobe product to create client side applications that has rich user interface using Flash and AJAX.
It seems Adobe has promised to open up a whole new world in OS independent, rich media based, on-line/off-line application creations. It allows previously web focused application designers to enter a new dimension. I am looking forward to what's coming down the pipe of Adobe's new product line!
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