Simeon Says

The world is alive with the news of the final release of the Flex 3 tools and AIR 1.0 release. This is a very exciting day, as it marks the official launch of the Adobe Technology Platform. With Adobe tools developers can use their existing skill set to reach Web, Mobile, and even Desktop environments. This is such a powerful set of tools you would have to be asleep at the wheel not to be excited.

And yet, those announcements do not even come close to firing me up like the announcement of the Open At Adobe website. The projects page of this site is an epitome of the history of Adobe’s commitment to Open Source tools. Although this site has just launched, you will see that of the many projects outlined there, only 2 are even close to new. Although Adobe has been a promoter of open source for quite some time, this site establishes the conduit for the transparency that is necessary to be successful in that market.

Take a minute to look at the core technologies in Adobe’s business that have been opened to the world and you can hardly deny their commitment to the Open Source Movement.