Adobe open sources Flex. Ted Leung says that this might indicate the possibility of Adobe open sourcing Flash itself in the future.
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Adobe open sources Flex. Ted Leung says that this might indicate the possibility of Adobe open sourcing Flash itself in the future.
To behonest, open sourcing Flash is the only sensible thing to do in response to Microsoft's Silverlight release. Adobe might have the edge over Microsoft on the embedded online media market now, but Microsoft can easilly change that by making the Silverlight production and consumation chain streamlined in ways that are out of line of sight for Adobe. This, for example, includes patching IIS and IE to support Silverlight and adding support for it in the upcoming Visual Studio Orcas. That could result in quite some Silverlight implementations in a very short amount of time and could threaten Flash in the long run.
I'm not a fan of Flash, but for it to keep the upper hand over Silverlight, open sourcing (and perhaps standardizing) it is the best way forward. Adobe will still make money from their Flash production suits, but will gain full market penetration with their Flash rendering engine being natively embedded in all browsers across all operating systems.
Asbjørn Ulsberg - 27th April 2007 07:16 - #