5. Why These Trends Make RIA Relevant to Your Business Proven Productivity Reach Rich Create highly interactive, expressive applications that deliver more value to end users. Deploy with the widest reach in the world to any major operating system across the web, desktops, and devices. Design, develop, and deploy faster with best-in-class tools, frameworks, servers, services, and runtimes. Be confident with Adobe’s long- standing commitment to openness that our technologies will evolve and interoperate with the open web. Adobe’s RIA technologies enable developers and designers to build and deploy the most engaging applications with the greatest reach across the browser, the desktop, and devices.
7. Flash Player Adoption Source: NPD September 2003 – March 2006; Millard Brown September 2006 – March 2007 3 months 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 6 months 9 months 12 months Flash Player 9 Flash Player 9 90% worldwide in June 2007
8. What Is Adobe AIR? Coders Adobe AIR is a cross–operating system runtime that enables you to use your existing skills, code, and tools to build powerful rich Internet applications for the desktop. Consumers Adobe AIR enables you to have your favorite web applications with you all the time. CEOs With Adobe AIR, you can deploy branded rich Internet applications on the desktop that give you a closer connection to your customer.
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14. Adobe AIR Capabilities Mac, Windows, Linux® Adobe AIR APIs Cross-OS Application Integrated Rendering Integrated DOMs and Scripting Flash HTML Flex ActionScript™ XML Audio Video HTML JavaScript XML CSS File System Access Network Detection Notifications Application Update Drag and Drop Local Database PDF PDF Flash HTML