Adobe Systems has announced a prerelease alpha of its
Adobe AIR
software for the
Linux operating system. Version 1.0 of AIR for
Microsoft Windows and
Mac OS X was launched last year.
The move provides additional tools for Linux developers to build rich Internet applications, and RIAs created for Mac and Windows users can now be extended to Linux users without additional platform-specific code.
Joining the Linux Foundation
Adobe also announced that it is joining the Linux Foundation to boost the growth of Linux-based RIA technologies, and that it is making an update to the alpha version of Flex Builder 3 for Linux available. Recently, Adobe released as open source the software development kit for the Flex framework and for BlazeDS, which supports data-intensive RIAs. The company also said it continues to contribute to the open-source Tamarin virtual machine, the core of its Flash player.
David Wadhwani, general manager of Adobe's platform business unit, said these releases "provide a first-class application runtime and RIA-creation tool to the Linux community."
Flex is a free, open-source framework for building RIAs that can run on the desktop with AIR or in a browser with Adobe's Flash Player. On the desktop, RIAs can have access to offline data that has been constantly updated via the computer's network connection. In the browser, they can operate with the responsiveness more common to desktop applications.
Adobe Versus Microsoft
Al Hilwa, program director at industry research firm IDC, said these moves help Adobe secure additional credibility in the open-source community. "Open-source developers look at all large vendors with a suspicious eye," he noted, "but Adobe's done much more with the open-source community than, say, Microsoft -- relative to its size."
Hilwa pointed out that Adobe "is trying hard to cozy up to that community," in large part because of its ongoing battle against Microsoft's...
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