PCWorld reports Adobe: Flash Gaining Traction in the Enterprise.
While most people know Flash as primarily a multimedia delivery and development technology for Web sites, it is catching on as a front-end user-interface (UI) technology for business applications, an Adobe manager [AIR Group Product Marketing Manager, Adrian Ludwig] said Wednesday.
The article goes on to discuss Flash’s growing use behind the corporate firewall and the impact that Flex has had in gaining interest from traditional application developers.
Adobe’s Flash has been making progress against legacy desktop applications — such as those built in C++ — although that progress hasn’t been widely publicized…
“One of the problems with Flash is people only think of it as being used to do public Web sites,” he said in an interview in New York Wednesday. “It’s a misconception. A significant percentage of [Flash] applications people are making now are enterprise applications behind the corporate firewall.”
He cited as an example an application that Siemens and development partner Thrasys created for Siemen’s health information system. The companies created a front-end, Web-based interface using Flash and Flex to unite several back-end applications and streamline how employees use information from different systems.
That interview may have been conducted before Forrester came out last week with their survey of 50,000 enterprise desktops at 2300 businesses… Adobe Flash Player 9 was already installed on 97% of enterprise desktops:
http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=9430
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Interesting PC World article……..Flash is a great application and is gaining popularity.
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