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May 18, 2007 - There been a slight shift on the topic of conversation within the last week or so. Now there is one hell of a hullabaloo brewing in the forums over what effect Silverlight will have on Adobe Apollo. Forum users and blogglers everywhere are speculating upon the Adobe - Microsoft square up. This is where I think the so called experts might have just got slightly confused. Surely the matter up for debate is what effect will Microsoft Silverlight have on Adobe Flash and not Apollo?
Talking of Apollo, it has a few problems in its own back yard to sort out with the presence of MDM Zinc. Apollo has been designed to enable Flash applications work on the Desktop. The only problem is that MDM Zinc has been doing just that for the last five years, Zinc is totally stand alone and doesn’t have the need for a runtime that has to be installed upon the end user system.
MDM Zinc and Adobe Apollo both require Flash to work successfully, both place applications to the desktop, but that is where the similarity ends. Quite simply this matter is running a two level platform, on the one platform Silverlight, Flash and Java FX and on the other MDM Zinc and Apollo.
The rush that the community have been experiencing in posting their opinions on Apollo, Silverlight and Java FX has been quite phenomenal and this is where the confusion has come into play. To get an accurate picture of what’s going on, I suggest that the community needs to sort out the wheat from the chaff and eventually you will see the woods from the trees, or should that be, Apollo from Zinc?
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