Adobe AIR to power Nasdaq & American Cancer Society

Posted by Joshua on Jan 25, 2008 * Add comments
Categories: AIR , Flex

We all knew AIR would build up momentum and really take us to the next level in desktop applications working with internet based apps, especially those who saw it at MAX 07 during the showcase. I personally, got really excited... especially after seeing Thermo and how we can use it to skin our future RIA apps.  With that said, looks like AIR is going to be used in Nasdaq and in the American Cancer Society!  You can read all about it here at ComputerWorld.  The article also talks a little about how the "others" (Microsoft, Mozilla corp) are working to create tools/plugins that can compete with Flex and AIR.  One thing is for sure, Adobe has a HUGE lead on this and with the amount of users that already have the Flash Player installed that just increases their lead.

A friend of mine drinks the Microsoft kool-aid alot and was talking to me about XAML, which looks alot like MXML in my opinion.  With all the people that already have the Flash player installed why would you develop using this when you can use Flex and just have a .NET backend?   Would love to hear about some other opinions/options on RIA technologies, also does anyone know if Microsoft has an AIR type platform yet?


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