ZDNet.com, The Universal Desktop, 10.01.2008: Rich Internet application predictions for 2008

ZDNet.com, The Universal Desktop, 10.01.2008: Rich Internet application predictions for 2008
by Ryan Stewart: "2007 was a great year for rich Internet applications. We also saw a lot of traction in the enterprise space with companies like Oracle and SAP looking to augment their user experience with rich Internet applications. 2008 is going to be even better and here’s why."

Tags: ria, predictions, trends, enterprise, enterprise2.0, adobe, air, microsoft, silverlight, flex

Adobe Press Room, 13.12.2007: Adobe Announces Open Source Technologies for Enterprise RIAs

Adobe Press Room, 13.12.2007: Adobe Announces Open Source Technologies for Enterprise RIAs
About: "BlazeDS Enables Developers to Productively Build Real-Time Data-Driven Applications"

Tags: adobe, air, flex, opensource, ria enterprise, webdev

Read/WriteWeb, 27.11.2007: Forrester: RIAs Will Replace Microsoft Office & Portals on Front End

Read/WriteWeb, 27.11.2007: Forrester: RIAs Will Replace Microsoft Office & Portals on Front End
by Richard MacManus: "A new Forrester report by Erica Driver and Ron Rogowski suggests that rich Internet applications (RIAs) may usurp Microsoft Office and enterprise portals as the front-end UIs for 'decision-makers and task-oriented workers'. The phrase Forrester uses for this front end is 'Information Workplaces (IWs)'."

Tags: ria, enterprise2.0, flex, portal, adobe, research

ZDNet.com, Software as Services, 08.11.2007: Web collaboration: Cisco and Adobe duke it out

ZDNet.com, Software as Services, 08.11.2007: Web collaboration: Cisco and Adobe duke it out
by Phil Wainewright: "Software as a service is much more than the packaging option ... While Cisco is focusing on a platform that offers a framework for collaboration, Adobe is creating its own portfolio of applications to enable online collaboration."

Tags: saas, collaboration, adobe, cisco, businessmodels

ZDNet.com, Software as Services, 3.10.2007: SAP, Adobe, Microsoft: three monkeys take on SaaS

ZDNet.com, Software as Services, 3.10.2007: SAP, Adobe, Microsoft: three monkeys take on SaaS
by Phil Wainewright: "The challenge: transition from a business model where you earn revenues by selling perpetual software licenses to one based on monthly subscription payments. Not only that, but achieve the transition while continuing to report rising revenues and protecting your profitability. Can it be done?"

Tags: software, business, strategy, saas, analysis, adobe, microsoft, sap

ZDNet.com, Dana Gardner’s BriefingsDirect, 12.09.2007: BEA, Adobe flex their muscles in pushing toward RIAs on the enterprise desktop

ZDNet.com, Dana Gardner’s BriefingsDirect, 12.09.2007: BEA, Adobe flex their muscles in pushing toward RIAs on the enterprise desktop
by Dana Gardner: "BEA Systems Inc. and Adobe Systems Inc. are teaming up to give enterprise customers a design environment for rich Internet application (RIA) development. The two companies announced Tuesday that BEA will bundle Adobe’s Flex Builder 2 software with BEA Workshop Studio."

Tags: webdev, software, soa, adobe, ria, opensource, flex

Ryan Stewart - Rich Internet Application Mountaineer, 04.09.2007: ColdFusion and AIR and the Adobe Platform

Ryan Stewart - Rich Internet Application Mountaineer, 04.09.2007: ColdFusion and AIR and the Adobe Platform
by Ryan Stewart: "But I want to see it grow and Terry Ryan has a thought provoking post about ColdFusion and Adobe AIR which is worth a read."

WEB 2.0 JOURNAL, 26.07.2007: How to Choose an RIA Path: AJAX or Adobe?

WEB 2.0 JOURNAL, 26.07.2007: How to Choose an RIA Path: AJAX or Adobe?
by Jeffrey Hammond: "AJAX is the best bet for experienced Web development shops looking to incrementally evolve existing Web applications"

Tags: ria, ajax, adobe, flex, analysis, bestpractice, webdev

Ryan Stewart, 15.05.2007: Cairo Mozilla’s "Answer" to Flash?

Ryan Stewart, 15.05.2007: Cairo Mozilla’s "Answer" to Flash?
by Jeremy: "Mozilla is actually using Cairo as their new graphic composition engine. Cairo is going to allow them to have smoother font rendering, better image scaling (and page scaling), improved svg support and the ability to support more of the CSS3 specs."

Tags: mozilla, graphics, ui, webdev, adobe, flash, apollo, ria

Read/Write Web, 28.02.2006: Adobe Engage - How Will Apollo Impact Mainstream Users?

Read/Write Web, 28.02.2006: Adobe Engage - How Will Apollo Impact Mainstream Users?
by Jay Fortner: "After attending Adobe’s Engage event, where Adobe peeled the covers off Apollo, I began to wonder how compelling this offering is for the mainstream user; and what is the most likely diffusion scenario (i.e. how it will be accepted by the market)."

Tags: apollo, adobe, flash, adoption, analysis

Techcrunch, 28.02.2007: Best Apollo Demos

Techcrunch, 28.02.2007: Best Apollo Demos
by Ryan Stewart: "There were a bunch of product demos today at Adobe’s Engage event, but there were a few that stood out and should have a big impact on the startup world. They also happened to be some of the best demos of the day."

Tags: apollo, adobe, flex, flash, web2.0, ria

Techcrunch, 27.02.2007: Talking Apollo with Kevin Lynch at Adobe Engage

Techcrunch, 27.02.2007: Talking Apollo with Kevin Lynch at Adobe Engage
by Ryan Stewart: "Adobe has focused on cross platform web based experiences, but with Apollo they’re hoping to move into richer desktop experiences as well as richer mobile integration."

O'Reilly Radar, 27.02.2007: Creating Engaging User Experiences

O'Reilly Radar, 27.02.2007: Creating Engaging User Experiences
by Tim O'Reilly: "Adobe's holding a special product preview summit today called Engage, focused on Adobe's new tools for creating engaging user experiences. I love Adobe's framing of 'engaging user experiences' as a touchstone for the web going forward."

Tags: adobe, ui, usability, tools, web2.0

O'Reilly Radar, 05.12.2006: 72 Hours in Silicon Welly: InnaWorks and the Future of the Web

O'Reilly Radar, 05.12.2006: 72 Hours in Silicon Welly: InnaWorks and the Future of the Web
by Nat Torkington: More precisely, desktop apps are being replaced with web apps that have offline behaviour. When you begin to think of apps in that light, you see Adobe's Apollo (a cross-platform desktop RIA environment available as a browser plugin), Java, Microsoft's Avalon, and Ajax apps as all possible successors to the Win32 throne.

Tags: adobe, apollo, mobile, standards, ria, desktop, software

Ryan Stewart - Rich Internet Application Mountaineer, 04.12.2006: Other Thoughts on WPF/E

Ryan Stewart - Rich Internet Application Mountaineer, 04.12.2006: Other Thoughts on WPF/E
by Ryan Stewart: "WPF/E is not a Flash killer. Flash isn’t going away, and value-adds like Flex and VoIP down the road make Flash a formidable foe for anyone getting into the cross-platform runtime business."

Tags: ria, microsoft, wpfe, expression, adobe, flash, analysis

James Governor's MonkChips, 01.12.2006: Case Study: T-Mobile and Adobe Flex, Extending SAP with Agile methods

James Governor's MonkChips, 01.12.2006: Case Study: T-Mobile and Adobe Flex, Extending SAP with Agile methods
by James Governor: "At Adobe MAX the most interesting session I attended was a presentation by T-Mobile. The wireless provider is using Adobe technology to extend SAP and rapidly bring new applications to users, without any Big Middleware SOA blather. The development team might as well have walked around with Neon Tangerine Flake "We Get It" signs above their heads (well this was Las Vegas, after all). It was, as I say, good stuff."

Tags: adobe, conference, enterprise, flex, bestpractice