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Jython’s Future Looking Sunny. Sun have (finally) invested in Jython, hiring lead maintainer Frank Wierzbicki. They’ve also hired Ted Leung to “represent the wider world of Python at Sun”. Great news.

# 3rd March 2008, 4:08 pm / frank-wierzbicki, jython, python, sun, ted-leung

Adobe open sources Flex. Ted Leung says that this might indicate the possibility of Adobe open sourcing Flash itself in the future.

# 26th April 2007, 11:24 am / adobe, flash, flex, open-source, ted-leung

Adobe wants to be the Microsoft of the Web. The base platform technology for RIAs is too important to be controlled or designed by any single party.

# 2nd March 2007, 1:01 pm / adobe, flash, flex, rias, ted-leung