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Cloud Conference Presages New Era of Online Development Amazon, Google and others gather this week to talk about technical specs and business models for cloud-based application serving and development, potentially disrupting current in-house models. Sun Preps Tool for Social Networking Applications Sun has revealed it is developing a set of tools to help users build social networking applications that can be based in the cloud. Google Joins Microsoft/Adobe Fight Over Developers With the Google App Engine, Google is adding its own approach to the fight between Microsoft and Adobe over how developers and designers should work together on Web applications. Red Hat Makes JBoss Dev Available From Amazon Cloud JBoss Enterprise Application Platform will be built into Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud to let Java developers build apps on a public net. Why Buzzword and Google Docs Are Different Animals Adobe's charging hard into the online word processor market with Buzzword, and the app's creator hopes that its WYSIWYG interface mdash;and hooks into Adobe Reader mdash;will help it triumph as the formative market declares its allegiances Microsoft .Net Gets High-Speed App Messaging Middleware Financial software tool developer ports its high-speed application messaging middleware to .Net platform. What Adobe is Thinking with Acrobat Site Will Buzzword cut into Create PDF online? Will free PDF authoring in Buzzword cut into desktop Acrobat user base? Adobe exec answers these mdash;and other mdash;questions that came up in the wake of this week's Acrobat.com online services rollout. Acrobat 9, With Flash, Moves Adobe Farther Ahead of Silverlight Flash in PDF files, up to this point, has been a developers' diversion. Just as MySpace, WordPress, and Flickr enable the average person to quickly create sophisticated web content, the new Acrobat aims to be Everyman's basic Flash integration tool Microsoft Pushes Alternative to AJAX At Ruby conference, Microsoft talks up altenrative to AJAX designed to work with Microsoft's other graphic tools. Prepress Developer Announces XPS-PDF Bridge PDF prepress software developer makes splash at Dusseldorf quadrennial printing show—and throws open Certified PDF to outside development Adobe Announces Acrobat 9, As Predicted Adobe, as predicted in PDFZone stories during the past several weeks, has announced the next major version of its document management technology. WebCollage Offers Self-Syndication Platform System is designed to allow instant deployment and syndication of content. Symantec Says Adobe Patch Works, After All After initially believing that the patch for a version of Adobe's Flash player on Linux was ineffective, Symantec finds the fix is effective on all platforms. Acrobat 9 To Be Announced Monday Sources say Adobe projects sales of 32 million seats of the new version, up from 25M of Acrobat 8 and 14.5M of version 7 Adobe flaunts Macromedia tech in new Acrobat For better or for worse, the PDF authoring tool gets a Flash-y shot in the arm. Acrobat Collaboration Plug-in Maker Rosebud Gets Funding Company finds venture capital and a potential home in Florida university small-business incubator program; 1.0 is on its way Adobe upgrades Acrobat Connect Pro, Presenter Enterprise-scale implementations of former Macromedia Breeze products bring more, customizable Flash and PDF training/presentation content to the browser Microsoft Debuts Newest Version of Designer App Expression Studio 2 is designed for professional designers and is aimed directly at what may be a vulnerable Adobe. Flash attack: Microsoft woos creatives on Silverlight Analysis: While PDF implementation remains an imprecise science, Adobe has no answer for Redmond's media blitz -- or the announcement at Expression 2.0 of new Silverlight authoring tools. Eisner Returns to Scene of Crime at Aquent PDF Conference Media mogul: In 20 years, web content will reign, while networks will serve to rerun shows first shown on Internet. |
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