Today Adobe released another document that brought tears to my eyes. Why do
they think that people are dumb? Why not just say, “We couldn’t figure
out how to monetize Flex and we’re getting rid of the ballast”? Adobe is
a public company, and beside developers they have investors and their stock
went up by more than 10% since last (infamous) November. They’ve chosen
investors over developers. This is understandable, but why keep lying to
developers?
Today’s doc contains lots of words, but the most important section is this:
Adobe runtime support of Flex
Flash Player 11.2 and Adobe AIR 3.2, which are anticipated to ship in the
first quarter of 2012, will be tested
with applications built using Adobe Flex 4.6. Adobe will test future releases
of Flash Player and AIR against the
Adobe Flex 4.6 SDK and maintain backwards compatibility for five years.
While Adobe will ensure... (more)
After casting a pall on the future of Flash by canceling any further
development of Flash on mobile devices last week, Abode has abandoned its
Flash-based Flex application SDK to the tender mercies of the Apache Software
Foundation (ASF), reinforcing the idea that Flash is ultimately toast, burned
by rival HTML5, a posthumous victory for Steve Jobs who openly loathed
Adobe's stuff.
Flash's future looks bleaker still considering Flex can build both desktop
and mobile apps.
The Apache Foundation will have to vote on whether it will take Flex and its
roadmap under its wing. Flex h... (more)
Just came back from LA, where I spent three days at MAX – the main Adobe
conference. Four people from our company were there and all liked it. I went
there to see if the company is still strong, has a clear road map that,
hopefully, matches my understanding of where IT population is moving. Adobe
does seem strong despise the bleak keynotes. I mean, the special effects were
fine, the screen was huge, the projection software was pushing three million
pixels a second to the monitors with showing ballet dancer and iPads running
Adobe’s software.
Our seats were shaken from the bass... (more)
Critical vulnerabilities have been identified in ColdFusion v8.0.1 and
earlier versions, and JRun 4.0. Adobe has now patched them with a Security
Update released on August 17, 2009.
Here are the details, direct from Adobe's own Security Bulletin:
"Summary
Critical vulnerabilities have been identified in ColdFusion v8.0.1 and
earlier versions, and JRun 4.0. These vulnerabilities could lead to the
potential compromise of user accounts or the affected system.
Affected software versions
ColdFusion 8.0.1 and earlier versions
JRun 4.0
Solution
Adobe recommends affected ColdFusion and JRun... (more)
This morning ZD Net published an article stating the Adobe will cease
development of Flash Player on Mobile in favor of packaging mobile
applications in Adobe AIR.
The Flash Player haters quickly picked up this news and to draw attention to
their blogs/tabloids started to cash on Steve Job’s name starting that he
won the battle with Adobe since Steve was the one who didn’t let Flash
Player on iOS.
As of now, I don’t know if these rumors are valid, but even if they are,
this ain’t breaking news. Let me explain why in three simple sentences.
1. Adobe AIR includes Flash Player
2. A... (more)
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