Adobe Advances Flash Platform at MAX 2008

Business Wire, Nov 17, 2008

Adobe Flash Platform Ecosystem Grows

The Adobe Flash Platform consists of a large and vibrant ecosystem that continues to grow, and includes the following companies who are making announcements today:

- Acesis announced a breakthrough SaaS solution that leverages the Adobe Flash Platform to measure doctor performance and reduce medical errors. www.acesis.com/

- Cynergy announced a new media and entertainment division, Cynergy.ME, to create interactive content and rich Internet applications using the Adobe Flash Platform. www.cynergysystems.com

- Ensemble introduced a new offering called Ensemble Tofino for Visual Studio, a plug-in that enables .NET developers to create Flex front ends for their applications using Microsoft Visual Studio. www.ensemble.com

- MicroStrategy announced that its latest release of MicroStrategy 8[TM] software integrates and extends the Adobe Flash Platform so developers can create RIAs with embedded Business Intelligence. www.microstrategy.com

- SAP is enabling SAP developers to take advantage of Flex components to develop rich user interfaces for SAP applications (see separate Adobe press release). www.sap.com

- Zend announced the first deliverable of the Adobe and Zend partnership with Adobe's contribution of Action Message Format (AMF) support in the new 1.7 release of Zend Framework. This new AMF component enables developers to optimize data communication between Zend Framework server-side PHP components and client-side Adobe Flex components. http://framework.zend.com

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