Open Screen Shows Adobe Opening Up | Linux Today

Open Screen Shows Adobe Opening Up

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
May 1, 2008

“Fresh off joining the Linux Foundation and extending its
support for Flash Player and AIR runtime software to Linux, Adobe
is heading up a new collaborative project to ease development and
design of rich applications on a variety of devices from PCs and
TVs to mobile devices and other consumer electronics. The Open
Screen Project is being supported by Adobe and a cavalcade of other
big vendors in hardware, networking and devices (ARM, Intel, Cisco,
Motorola, Nokia, NTT DoCoMo, Sony Ericsson, Toshiba and Verizon
Wireless among them) as well as video giants including MTV Networks
and NBC Universal.

“That’s pretty broad, significant support, and even though it’s
not actually an open source project, Open Screen is intended as a
collaborative effort to offset fragmentation with a common runtime
technology that crosses OS, device, vendor and screen…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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