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ZdNetAsia Article on Flash Lite

Posted on March 27th, 2007 by admin.
Categories: Adobe, Flash Lite.

ZDNetAsia recently posted a great article about Flash Lite and Adobe’s continuing efforts to challenge Java as the ultimate write once, run anywhere platform. It’s a very long and well written article that includes quotes from quite a few big folks in the Flash community.

One quote comes from someone that I’ve had the pleasure of meeting with several times, Anup Murarka - Adobe’s Director of Technical Marketing:

“If you look at the traditional developer community, the creative professionals that have used Adobe products for years and years, there is a real interest,” Murarka says. “They are trying to figure out what they should do in mobile. Flash is proving to be three to five times faster for the application and content development than most of the technologies they have used in the past. But I don’t think Flash is a direct competitor for Java, because they solve different needs — Java is meant for a programmer, and Flash is meant for a creative professional.”

There’s also a quote in there by Dale Rankine, founder of Moket and a big name in the mobile Flash community.

Overall it’s a great article that talks about a lot of factors that are shaping the mobile development platform today. Highly recommended reading.

Read the ZDNetAsia article on Flash Lite here.

[tags]Adobe, Flash Lite, BREW, J2ME, ZDNet, Dale Rankine, Mobile[/tags]

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