AJAX World - Adobe's AIR War Can Now Proceed in Earnest
Adobe greased up Monday for its wrestling match with Microsoft over who gets to call the shots in the all-important rich Internet apps (RIA) department, that blurry future where web applications and desktop applications start looking and acting like each other. It finally released its free, highly anticipated Adobe Integrated Runtime 1.0 (AIR) cross-platform software development system along with the Flex 3 open source development framework and BlazeDS technology, a link between Adobe-based applications and databases. It was for this coming Armageddon that Microsoft created the Silverlight browser plug-in, and is about to roll out a beta Silverlight 2 that will let developers write RIAs for Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari using .NET widgetry and any .NET language.
Adobe and Silverlight are not the only players in this game. You should take a close look at Curl which has a much longer legacy and provides more capabilities than either Adobe AIR, Flex or Microsoft Silverlight. For example, Curl can handle 2D and 3D rendering, is available on Linux, Windows, and Mac (beta), and can process hundreds of thousands of records (an order of magnitude more than any other RIA solution).
Curl is not as pervasive as Adobe Flash but its very competitive with Adobe AIR and Silverlight which actually do not have a very large share of the market yet. In addition, Curl is targeted for the enterprise rather than mass consumer applications so it capabilities are less multi-media and more enterprise focused.
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Adobe AIR News Desk commented on the 28 Feb 2008
Adobe greased up Monday for its wrestling match with Microsoft over who gets to call the shots in the all-important rich Internet apps (RIA) department, that blurry future where web applications and desktop applications start looking and acting like each other
Don Dodge wrote: D Cheng,
Of course in-house
systems go down. What I
am saying is that our
psychological need for
control makes us hold
onto teh traditional ways
of doing things.
When systems go down we
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Tommy wrote: I simply do
not agree on many parts:
- .NET has a lot of
traction
- you can
certainly know well (and
master) more than one
language. If you cannot
master more than one
language, this could
po...
Paul Hands wrote: O'Gara
continues to be an
abject, putrid idiot.
Why publish that drivel?
To quote Pauli, "this is
not even wrong". It's
also an egregious
conflict of interest.
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