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NEW YORK—Adobe’s Flash is the dominant rich Internet application platform and the company is counting on its lead there to keep competitors like Microsoft at bay, as the RIA wars heat up.
In a meeting with eWEEK at Adobe’s offices here on July 30, Adrian Ludwig, group manager of product marketing in the Adobe Platform and Developer Business Unit, noted that Flash has 98 percent reach on the desktop and also is the dominant animation and interactivity software in the enterprise. Ludwig cited a Forrester Research report that said Flash is on over 97 percent of enterprise desktops.
Ludwig was almost hesitant to acknowledge that by Adobe’s tally there are about 10 million downloads of Flash each day. Flash is on more than 500 million devices and 75 percent of the video on the Web uses Flash, he said.
“The best way to do a really compelling application in the browser is with Flash,” Ludwig said. And ISVs appear to be aware of this, as companies such as Oracle, SAP and BEA Systems (now owned by Oracle) are using Flash for just that purpose, he said.
Flash CS3 Professional is available at an academic discount price of $245.
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