Flex News Desk

SmartBear Software Advances Load Testing for Websites with RIAs

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 06:00:00 EST

SmartBear Software has unveiled LoadComplete 2.0, the latest version of the company's load testing tool for Web applications. Featuring new support for rich Internet applications (RIAs), LoadComplete 2.0 now makes it easy to create and run realistic load tests, without scripting, for websites built using Adobe Flash and Flex, AJAX, and Microsoft Silverlight technologies. New data presentation and reporting options make it easier for users to control data parameters and interpret and diagnose results to improve the performance, reliability, and user experience of Web applications. Mathijs Groen, QA Engineer, Benelux, at Kewill B.V., said, "LoadComplete 2.0 is an economical and efficient tool for us to more easily test the performance of our rich Internet-based applications and compare performance statistics by running it on several types of application servers. This enables us to better assist customers by providing them with the most ‘smoothly running' framework."

Adobe Sends Flex to the Apache Foundation

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 05:00:00 EST

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 has been open source since 2008 but will have to shift out from under Adobe’s control and be managed as an independent project.

Adobe’s Building a Cloud

Wed, 12 Oct 2011 06:15:00 EDT

In the fashion of the times Adobe is building a cloud and in the fashion of Adobe it’s called the Creative Cloud. Adobe calls it a major “transformative” new initiative. It’s meant to sell classic Adobe desktop and newfangled tablet applications. Adobe’s got a half-dozen cross-platform Touch Apps for content creation on tablets, Android to start in mid-November, Apple next year despite Apple’s rejection of Adobe’s Flash widgetry. In response to Apple’s distain Adobe seems to be moving increasingly to the more acceptable HTML 5. For instance, it’s buying Vancouver-based Nitobi Software, which makes PhoneGap, an open source platform for building cross-platform HTML5- and JavaScript-based mobile apps and donating its code to the Apache Software Foundation.

Adobe AIR Dead on Desktop Linux

Mon, 20 Jun 2011 08:30:00 EDT

AIR has joined Adobe Reader in the dustbin of Adobe products on Linux. According to figures gathered by Netmarketshare that Adobe uses to justify its decision to terminate AIR on desktop Linux, desktop Linux accounts for less than 1% of the market. More important – from Adobe’s point-of-view – desktop Linux has accounted for less than 0.5% of lifetime AIR downloads so, instead, Adobe is off chasing the “mobile client,” the 200 million Android, BlackBerry Tablet OS and iOS devices that can download and run AIR apps. It’s killing off AIR and the AIR SDK for desktop Linux with the latest 2.7 release of AIR. The last Adobe release of AIR for desktop Linux is AIR 2.6.

Adobe Falls Out of Love with Linux

Sun, 24 Apr 2011 08:00:00 EDT

Adobe quietly stopped supporting the thinly used Linux desktop last June, a development noticed by only a few like a smarting IBM, which reportedly has – or at least had – 16,000 Linux desktops inside. In the next couple of months Adobe is supposed to stop supporting AIR for Linux even though some 35% of developers are supposed to fancy Linux. The Linux desktop may have captured 1%-2% of PCs worldwide. Seems Linux doesn’t fit in with the mobile dislocation.

Adobe Flash Builder 4.5 is coming to town

Mon, 11 Apr 2011 00:01:00 EDT

Adobe is about to release Flex 4.5 and Flash Builder 4.5 – both are sharpened for the mobile development. On May 3rd you’ll get the version supporting Android, and the June’s release will support iOS. In other words, developers will be able to create standalone AIR applications for Android, BlackBerry Tablet OS, and iOS.

Flash Shows a White Flag

Mon, 14 Mar 2011 09:30:00 EDT

After taking heavy fire from Steve Jobs over Flash, Adobe Tuesday ran up a white flag and produced a so-called experimental Flash Professional-to-HTML 5 automatic conversion tool called Wallaby so Flash files can run on Apple’s otherwise forbidden iPad and iPhone. It will work initially on simple stuff like banner ads and animations and create a mix of HTML, CSS and JavaScript that can be edited, if necessary, in Dreamweaver. It doesn’t support movies or sound yet and it reportedly works best at this point with output from the Webkit-based Safari and Chrome browsers.

SmartBear Software Releases Comprehensive Test Automation for Adobe Flash

Wed, 23 Feb 2011 13:24:11 EST

SmartBear Software on Tuesday announced TestComplete 8.2, the latest release of its automated testing tool. A 2010 Jolt Award winner, TestComplete 8.2 brings advanced test automation to a vast community of developers working with Adobe Flash Platform tools and Flex for the development and deployment of cross-platform rich Internet applications (RIAs). “As RIAs become more widely adopted on the web and in enterprises, developers and testers are looking for more efficient and comprehensive functional testing tools to speed up application development time, improve software quality and increase developer productivity,” said Dave Gruber, Group Product Marketing Manager at Adobe Systems. “Using the new release of SmartBear TestComplete, developer and QA teams can strengthen the system development workflow around Flash Platform tools to support the on-time delivery of stable and reliable RIAs that meet customer expectations.”

Adobe Releases an Interesting Marketing Tool

Tue, 22 Feb 2011 00:02:00 EST

During the MAX 2010 conference, it was clear that Adobe was shifting its focus from Flash Player to HTML producing tools. At that conference, the announcement about the acquisition of Day Software was made without much fanfare. Oh well, it’s just another Content Management System (CMS). But after seeing an impressive demo of the release today of CQ5 (a part of Customer Experience Management Platform), I can attest - this is not yet another CMS. It really puts the marketing department of your organization in the driver’s seat when it comes to creating a Web site for promoting your products.

Cloud Expo, Inc. Announces Cloud Expo 2011 New York Venue

Fri, 28 Jan 2011 20:45:00 EST

Cloud Expo, Inc. announced on Thursday that Cloud Expo 2011 New York, the 8th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, will take place June 6-9, 2011, at the Javits Center in New York City. The International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo series is the world’s leading Cloud-focused event and is held in New York, Silicon Valley, Prague, Tokyo, and Hong-Kong. Over 600 corporate sponsors and more than 65,000 industry professionals have participated in Cloud Expo since its inception, 10-folds more than all other Cloud-related events put together.

Original Software Continues to Innovate

Tue, 21 Dec 2010 12:04:00 EST

Original Software, the Application Quality Management (AQM) and Automated Software Quality (ASQ) vendor, has announced the release of its latest version of TestDrive, an agile test automation solution, and TestDrive-Assist, a dynamic manual testing solution. Version 7 is in direct response to an independent study undertaken earlier this year which revealed that the need for enhanced business agility was the highest rated market driver for improving software quality. With more complexity in IT projects and a need to respond faster to changing markets, development and QA teams have had to adapt the way they work. Original Software addresses the need for a more dynamic way of working and for agile test automation.

Adobe Announces Strategic Alliance Agreement with Deloitte

Mon, 13 Dec 2010 13:30:00 EST

Adobe Systems has announced a strategic agreement with Deloitte Consulting to create and deploy a new generation of applications designed to extend the power, reach and impact of enterprise systems for improved customer experience. “We are transforming user engagement with enterprise applications by unlocking their full value for our clients and their customers,” says Paul Clemmons, principal, Deloitte Consulting LLP and emerging solutions national service line leader. “Through our alliance with Adobe, we are deploying user-centric, rich Internet solutions that simplify complex applications and integrate front end and back end systems for more productive and intuitive business processes.” “Customers are demanding new ways to interact with businesses, and businesses are responding by delivering richer, more intuitive experiences to customers across a range of digital devices,” said Al Hilwa, Program Director, Application Development Software, IDC. “The strategic alliance between Deloitte and Adobe will bring significant implementation expertise and software solutions to organizations who are working on improving customer access to their products and services.”

Adobe to Open London Data Center for Omniture

Tue, 30 Nov 2010 08:45:00 EST

Adobe is opening a data center in a colocation facility outside of London that will serve its Omniture Business Unit customers in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. It’s supposed to provide faster data processing, improved application usability and performance and expanded localized data storage capabilities. It’s also supposed to make Omniture compliant with privacy and data collection standards. It says, “Data collected on behalf of our European customers will be processed in Europe.”

Adobe Licenses Solid Documents Technology for Acrobat X

Mon, 15 Nov 2010 11:00:00 EST

Solid Documents, a developer of document reconstruction and archiving software, announced that Adobe Systems Incorporated (Adobe) has licensed the Solid Framework SDK for Adobe Acrobat X. Adobe Acrobat X takes advantage of Solid Documents' PDF to Word and Excel conversion capabilities, allowing Acrobat X users to easily reuse and repurpose PDF content. "After reviewing the available options, we chose to use Solid Framework technology for the conversion of PDF files to Microsoft® Word and Excel in Adobe Acrobat X. The document reconstruction quality is very good and the Solid Documents team has been a pleasure to work with on this project," said Aman Deep Nagpal, Senior Product Manager, Acrobat Solutions, at Adobe.

Adobe MAX 2010 Starts Today in Los Angeles

Mon, 25 Oct 2010 07:53:00 EDT

The main annual event for all Adobe fans starts today in Los Angeles, CA. \Below is an overview of Adobe’s news announcements today at MAX 2010. For more information, please visit the hyperlinks below or on the Adobe.com press room. You can also check out the MAX online press room for the latest Adobe news, videos and images throughout the week Additionally, on Monday, Oct. 25 and Tuesday, Oct. 26, MAX Online will feature the event keynotes—streamed live and on demand. Register at http://max.adobe.com/online/ if you’re interested in the news and activity coming out of MAX. Yakov Fain is there - follow him on Twitter @yfain for his latest notes.

Adobe Unveils LiveCycle Enterprise Suite 2.5

Mon, 25 Oct 2010 02:07:00 EDT

Adobe on Monday announced the availability of Adobe® LiveCycle® Enterprise Suite 2.5 (ES2.5), expanding the company’s set of solutions for delivering superior customer experiences. New capabilities in LiveCycle ES2.5 include enterprise mobility for improved multiscreen delivery of applications, an enhanced framework for building enterprise rich Internet applications (RIAs), and real-time collaboration to empower organizations to interact with customers and citizens in more meaningful, personal ways. Adobe is also announcing three next-generation Solution Accelerators to reduce development time and increase quality of enterprise applications.

Adobe Extends AIR Applications Across Screens

Mon, 25 Oct 2010 00:39:00 EDT

Adobe on Monday announced Adobe AIR 2.5 software for televisions, tablets, smartphones and desktop operating systems. A key element of the Adobe Flash® Platform, AIR enables developers to leverage existing code to create and deliver standalone applications across devices and platforms. Adobe AIR now supports smartphones and tablets based on BlackBerry® Tablet OS, Android™, iOS, and desktops including Windows®, Macintosh and Linux® operating systems. In addition, Samsung will be the first television manufacturer to integrate support for Adobe AIR 2.5 in Samsung SmartTVs while Acer, HTC, Motorola, RIM, Samsung and others are expected to ship the runtime pre-installed on a variety of devices including tablets and smartphones later this year and early 2011.

Adobe Announces New Digital Publishing Suite

Mon, 25 Oct 2010 00:28:00 EDT

Adobe on Monday announced the Adobe Digital Publishing Suite, providing publishers a set of turnkey hosted services and viewer technology to create, publish, optimize and sell digital content direct to consumers, through content retailers or leading mobile marketplaces. Built on the foundation of Adobe Creative Suite® and Adobe InDesign® CS5 software, the Digital Publishing Suite enables the design and delivery of innovative publisher-branded reading experiences, paired with flexible commerce models and support for deep analytics reporting. Using InDesign CS5, PDF, HTML5 and the Digital Publishing Suite, publishers will be able to efficiently author both fixed and adaptive layouts, natively build new levels of interactivity directly in InDesign, distribute and monetize their digital editions, and optimize their editorial and advertising content for a complete end-to-end digital publishing workflow.

OpenStack Hits First Milestone

Fri, 22 Oct 2010 14:00:00 EDT

Three months after publicly starting down the road to imprint its NDA on the cloud by establishing a large-scale open source cloud platform called OpenStack free for anybody to use, Rackspace Hosting, its BFF NASA and a reportedly growing OpenStack community made their first official code drop Thursday. The milestone is called Austin - they're doing this alphabetically so presumably they have a ways to go - and it includes the all-important Amazon EC2-challenging OpenStack Compute provisioning engine that's supposed to blend the best of the Rackspace Cloud Servers widgetry that underlies its public cloud offering with NASA's own home-made Nebula cloud platform. OpenStack Compute, which has commanded most of the work these last few months, is the engine that provisions virtual machines complements of either Xen or KVM and basically supplies the glue that holds a cloud together.

So Is Microsoft Gonna Buy Adobe?

Fri, 08 Oct 2010 10:30:00 EDT

Adobe had an interesting afternoon Thursday. That’s when the New York Times came out and blogged that it knew from employees and consultants who were involved or simply knew that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and Shantanu Narayen, the CEO of Flash-wielding, Apple-banned Adobe, met recently at Adobe’s offices in San Francisco for “secret” talks, and that they talked mostly about Apple’s control over smartphones and how Microsoft and Adobe could join forces in an anti-Apple front and that one of the ways of doing that would be for Microsoft to buy Adobe.

Adobe Abandons Linux Flash Builder

Sun, 26 Sep 2010 05:45:00 EDT

Adobe said Wednesday that’s it’s not going to put any more money into developing the Linux version of Flash Builder, once called Flex Builder, because there’s no money in it. The move could be a harbinger of other companies re-evaluating their Linux investments given the still nasty economic environment and the Linux community’s notorious proclivity for not being a revenue generator. Oracle, for one, which sees software as a business it controls, recently pulled the plug on OpenSolaris.

Terracotta Claims To Solve Java’s Memory Conundrum

Tue, 14 Sep 2010 08:45:00 EDT

Java developers might want to think about hoisting Terracotta on their shoulders and marching around JavaOne this weekend. The company thinks it's overcome the garbage collection-created impasse preventing Java apps from using lots of memory just when lots of memory has gotten terribly fashionable in modern servers. And the solution is a lot cheaper and simpler than buying what amounts to a mainframe for Java from Azul. It'll be at JavaOne showing off the beta of its new BigMemory pure Java add-on for Enterprise Ehcache. The widgetry, compatible with all the popular JVMs, offers an off-heap cache that frees Java applications from the memory and performance restraints of garbage collection by managing the memory directly.

New IDE for Flex Developers Hits the Market

Mon, 13 Sep 2010 08:38:00 EDT

SapphireSteel Software’s Amethyst Professional is a new IDE which provides Microsoft Visual Studio users with a powerful development environment for the Flash Platform. Amethyst has a visual drag-and-drop designer for Flex 3, Flex 4 and AIR. The designer integrates with ActionScript and MXML code editors which support code refactoring, IntelliSense, auto-expanding snippets (code templates) and customizable code formatting. Amethyst has a unique multi-process ‘Cylon’ debugger which is able to debug into multiple SWFs simultaneously. The Cylon debugger has both simple and conditional breakpoints and allows the programmer to drill-down into complex objects by hovering over identifiers in the code editor. Amethyst Professional costs $249 and a 60-day trial version is available. After the trial period, the software degrades to the free Personal Edition unless a license is purchased. Amethyst Personal Edition supports editing and debugging but lacks high-end features such as the visual designer and refactoring.

Adobe Reorgs

Sun, 01 Aug 2010 14:45:00 EDT

Adobe now has a Creative and Interactive Solutions business unit headed by David Wadhwani, who ran its Platform business so the company can take a more integrated approach, and “deliver faster on our vision of multi-screen publishing and drive innovation and support for both Flash and HTML 5 authoring.” John Loiacono who ran Creative Solutions is now heading up a new Digital Media Solutions unit focused on the company’s core digital imaging franchise. Former Omniture CEO Josh James is leaving the company at the end of July and will be replaced by former Omniture biz dev VP Brad Rencher. Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen said Omniture now represents about 10% of Adobe’s revenue. Adobe bought Omniture 11 months ago for $1.8 billion.

Adobe Buys Day Software

Sun, 01 Aug 2010 10:45:00 EDT

Swiss-based web content management (WCM) house Day Software Holding AG got bought Wednesday by Adobe for roughly $240 million (255 million Swiss francs). Adobe is now going to tender for its outstanding stock offering $131.53 a share cash (139 Swiss francs), a 59% premium compared to its performance the last 60 days. Observers believe Day’s been positioning itself so Adobe would buy it. Adobe currently embeds Alfresco’s open source enterprise content management repository in its LiveCycle product and in its Acrobat.com service under an OEM arrangement but Day and Alfresco don’t seem to tangle in the marketplace.

Adobe to Acquire Day Software

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 00:58:00 EDT

Adobe Systems Incorporated and Day Software Holding AG announced the two companies have entered into a definitive agreement for Adobe to launch a public tender offer to acquire all of the publicly held registered shares of Day Software for CHF139 per share in cash in a transaction valued at approximately CHF255 million on a fully diluted equity-value basis. This approximates US$240 million at the current exchange rate. Adobe’s acquisition of Day will strengthen the company’s enterprise software solutions with market leading Web Content Management (WCM), Digital Asset Management and Social Collaboration offerings. This acquisition represents a significant market opportunity for Adobe to help organizations transform themselves by enabling them to create, manage, distribute and monetize content while optimizing the web experience for their customers.

Cloud-based Web Application Testing for Hybrid Web Applications

Wed, 21 Jul 2010 09:00:00 EDT

Sauce Labs on Wednesday announced testing support for Adobe Flex and Flash technologies. Based on Selenium, Sauce OnDemand enables cross-browser web application testing of Adobe Flex and Flash technologies in the cloud. This is the first functional testing product that supports test automation for hybrid web applications that include HTML, JavaScript, Flex and Flash technology. "Now it's easier and faster to do cross-browser tests for our web and Flex based Integrated Online Marketing solution," said Keith Davidson, vice president of engineering and operations at Lyris, Inc. "With testing support for Flex and Flash technology from Sauce Labs, we can write one test for all our Flex and web application functional testing and run it on multiple browsers in the cloud via Sauce OnDemand. Having this automation is an important component of our continuous integration strategy to deliver quality products to our customers."

One Less Thing for Flash to Worry About

Mon, 05 Jul 2010 17:00:00 EDT

Move Networks, a once-promising adaptive bit-rate video streaming house whose pricey plug-in-based technology was used at least briefly by Fox.com and ABC.com, has hit the wall running taking over $90 million in investments from Microsoft and Cisco, Hummer Winblad, Comcast, Benchmark Capital and Steamboat Ventures and Televista with it. Officially it’s looking for a buyer after failing to raise another $20 million. Staff has been laid off and its CEO, former DirecTV COO Roxanne Austin, is gone, replaced by its biz dev guy.

The Day When the Flex Framework Cairngorm 2 Died

Thu, 20 May 2010 05:50:00 EDT

When a new version of a software is released, the old version lives for a while and its creators usually care about supporting it. Yesterday, after reading about the release of Cairngorm 3, it’s clear that Adobe Consulting ignores this rule. Why did they quietly burried Cairngorm 2?

Jobs to Adobe: ‘Yer Stinkin’ Flash Is Over-the-Hill. Get Over It.’

Thu, 29 Apr 2010 15:15:00 EDT

As a diversion from its high-profile “who-knows-where-it-will-end” dogfight with Gizmodo over an errant iPhone prototype, Apple has posted a longish open letter on its web site over the signature of its CEO Steve Jobs reiterating all the reasons why Apple has no use for Adobe’s Flash technology. Steve – or his ghost writer – says Adobe mischaracterizes the Apple ban when it says it’s business-driven and only meant to protect the Apple App Store. He claims it’s technology-driven.

Apple Checkmates Adobe

Fri, 16 Apr 2010 10:45:00 EDT

Adobe introduced its Creative Suite 5 (CS5) Monday, the thing on which nearly 60% of its revenues depends, the thing that’s got to sell better than recession-tossed CS4 did, in the middle of a hailstorm that drew more attention to it than it normally would have gotten. Last Thursday Apple quietly rewrote its rules for developers and barred the backdoor that Adobe was figuring on using to get Flash onto iPhone, iPod and iPad, having already been barred from using the front door because Steve Jobs, as everyone must know by now, loathes Flash. CS5 includes – or is supposed to (we’ll see when it ships in 30 days) – an Adobe-advertised write-once Flash-to-iPhone compiler that was supposed to dodge the Apple police. But the latest Apple Developer Program License Agreement says in clause 3.3.1 that developers can’t use any foreign tools or cross-platform interpreters or compiler, only Apple tools. Any apps that don’t conform won’t be allowed in the iTunes store.

Adobe Turns Host

Fri, 02 Apr 2010 23:15:00 EDT

Adobe has opened the first of three new geographically diverse data centers for its bought-in Business Catalyst service, a hosted services platform for professional web designers that’s supposed to save them the trouble of back-end coding. The place is in North America and will be joined in a couple of months by facilities in Europe and Asia-Pac. Adobe expects users to deploy business web sites such as online stores and lead-generation mini-sites.

Focus Washington TechView Discusses Open Government With Adobe Executive

Thu, 01 Apr 2010 16:00:00 EDT

Focus Washington TechView recently sat down with Rob Tarkoff, senior vice president for Business Productivity Solutions at Adobe Systems Incorporated, to discuss Open Government and its application around the world. The two-part interview examines the role of technology in today's citizen-centric approach to government. As Open Government initiatives become more widespread, governments are beginning to view themselves in a different manner, Tarkoff explains in the interview. Serving constituents digitally is no longer optional, but must be at the core of the services provided, he continued.

Adobe’s Creative Suite 5 Scheduled

Sat, 27 Mar 2010 09:00:00 EDT

The unveiling of the next major release of Adobe’s flagship Creative Suite apps is due on April 12 with availability of the kit in English following a month later. There hasn’t been a rev since September of 2008. Adobe named the date when it reported fiscal first-quarter earnings down 19% to $127.2 million, or 24 cents a share, on revenue up 9.2% to $858.7 million including $432 million from CS4. Product sales were up 7.7%, service and support up 34%. Adobe’s new Omniture acquisition kicked in about 10% of total revenue. CS didn’t do so well at the height of the recession but with demand on the rise Adobe forecast Q2 revenues of $875 million–$925 million above Wall Street expectations. Otherwise, Adobe’s next-generation Flash Builder, Flash Builder 4 and the latest edition of its ColdFusion, tools for building multi-platform rich Internet applications (RIAs), are out now.

Adobe Advances Web Application Development

Mon, 22 Mar 2010 05:19:00 EDT

Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced the immediate availability of Adobe® Flash® Builder™ 4 and ColdFusion® Builder™ software, next generation Flash Platform tooling for building multi-platform rich Internet applications (RIAs). In addition, Adobe added a new Social service to the recently introduced Adobe® Flash® Platform Services. The Social service streamlines integration between Web applications and 14 leading social networks using Facebook Connect, Sign-in with Twitter, MySpaceID and LinkedIn.

Cloud Expo New York, Prague, and San Francisco Sponsors

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:00:00 EDT

Cloud Computing in 2010 will be a paradigm shifting technology trend and Cloud Expo is where the Cloud change will form as the single most significant industry event we enter a new decade. Since we announced Cloud Expo three years ago in 2007 and launched it in March of 2008 in New York City, I have been personally working with the companies that are in leadership positions as the Cloud technologies form. We recently presented the 4th International Cloud Computing & Expo at the Santa Clara Convention Center, in Santa Clara, California. The expo floor was packed for three days. Today, we have close to a 100% resign rate among our sponsors for the upcoming Cloud Expo, which will take place April 19-21, 2010, at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York City. I would like to take this opportunity to share some tips with all our valued sponsors, exhibitors, our rock start faculty, as well as our delegates.

On2 Stockholders Approve Merger with Google

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 20:45:00 EST

On2 Technologies on Wednesday announced that its stockholders approved the merger of On2 with a wholly owned subsidiary of Google Inc. at its Reconvened Special Meeting held earlier today. On2 stockholders holding in excess of a majority of the outstanding shares of On2 Common Stock voted in favor of the merger proposal. Under the terms of the merger agreement, as amended, each outstanding share of On2 Common Stock (other than shares owned by (a) Google, Oxide Inc., Oxide LLC or On2 and (b) any On2 stockholders who are entitled to and who properly exercise appraisal rights under Delaware law) will be cancelled and extinguished and will be automatically converted into the right to receive

LiveCycle Goes Cloud

Sun, 14 Feb 2010 22:15:00 EST

Remember that on-demand version of its document-centric LiveCycle Enterprise Suite 2 that Adobe promised? The first cloud version of the thing? Well, it’s here and it’s called LiveCycle Managed Services EC2. It’s a subscription-based version of the LiveCycle Enterprise Suite that Adobe debuted in October that uses Amazon’s EC2 to deploy rich Internet applications. It’s supposed to mean quicker roll-outs. It might attract smaller users in specific vertical industries. The production version is due March 8. Pricing starts around $50,000 a year depending on the modules selected.

Jobs Has a Few Words for Google & Adobe & They Ain’t Pretty: Reports

Sun, 07 Feb 2010 20:00:00 EST

"We did not enter the search business. [Google] entered the phone business. Make no mistake they want to kill the iPhone. We won't let them... I want to go back to that other question first and say one more thing. This don't be evil mantra - It's bullshit." - Steve Jobs at an employee Town Hall the other day according to Wired, MacRummors et al although he may have said "load of crap" not "bullshit"; sources vary. Jobs reportedly means to use "aggressive updates" to stay way out front of the Android phone.

Microsoft WebsiteSpark: Get New Business Leads to Grow Your Business

Tue, 02 Feb 2010 23:00:00 EST

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