Today Adobe is holding an
event called Engage, where it is explaining its Apollo web development platform
for tech bloggers, developers and others in the Web industry. John Dowdell from
Adobe has a useful
page of links. The coverage is quite diverse, from Tim O'Reilly
commenting on the user experience aspects, to David Berlind on Brightcove, to
James Governor on Acesis, to Scoble on positioning, to Ryan Stewart's blanket
coverage.
But let's step back and look at the high level. Michael Coté from Redmonk sums it up well:
"Apollo itself is, to be blunt, a new GUI framework evolved from Flash, Flex, ActionScript, and lots of XML. The idea is "bringing the web to the desktop"..."
Really, to put it even more bluntly, Apollo is Adobe's Web platform - only its plays to Adobe's strengths, which is "rich" desktop apps. And in particular, Adobe has two killer assets which it wants to push forward in this new world of desktop/web integration: Flash and PDF (Portable Document Format). David Berlind reported some interesting stats around those two things:
The buzzword for all this is Rich Internet Applications (RIA). As Ryan Stewart nicely laid out in a previous post, Apollo will compete with other RIA platforms - OpenLaszlo, Microsoft's WPF/E and WPF platforms, and of course Ajax itself (the rich internet app weapon of choice for Google). There's also another one, which Ryan didn't mention, that I will be posting on later today ;-)
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The question I've yet to hear answered in any way (official or unofficial) is whether Adobe still plan to bring out a new version of Director? Or will Apollo be the new kid on the block?
Apollo does look like an interesting technology mix though.
Posted by: Rick Curran | February 27, 2007 2:49 PMuhm, there's lots of new kids, lots of blocks too.... ;-)
Guidance on future versions of Director is here... an expected release second half of this year:
http://www.adobe.com/products/director/special/crossproduct/faq.html
jd/adobe
Posted by: John Dowdell | February 27, 2007 4:00 PMan old kid on new block....:) see www.dekoh.com
vijay/dekoh
Posted by: Vijay | February 27, 2007 5:59 PM