[July,31] Adobe: Flash Gaining Traction in the Enterprise

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While most people know Flash as primarily a multimedia delivery and development technology for Web sites, it is catching on as a front-end user-interface (UI) technology for business applications, an Adobe manager said Wednesday.

With Microsoft pushing its Silverlight technology as an alternative to Flash on the Web, Adobe has been promoting the use of Flash and its development framework, Flex, as well as the Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) -- a companion technology that brings Web-based Flash applications to the desktop -- for use among businesses.

This deployment of a technology whose primary domain has been mostly consumer-facing Web applications is encroaching on the territory long owned by Microsoft and other enterprise software and development-tool vendors.

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PC World - Business Center: Adobe: Flash Gaining Traction in the Enterprise