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I know a number of analysts like to work from a Linux desktop, so for them - and anyone else interested in Linux - I thought I'd point you to the news that the beta of Flash Player 9 for Linux is now live. The download can be found here and the FAQ can be found here.
A bunch of Adobe folks have blogged about this here, here and here!!
A few very interesting announcement from Adobe over the last couple of week. I'll cover them in reverse order - most recent first.
First up, I have just swapped mobiles to the new Samsung D900 - the first European handset that uses Flash to drive the menus and the UI. It also has a cool "uGo" wallpaper that changes when the phone is in different cities - very cool!! So with this in mind it's great to see that we will be extending the Flash Lite technology with the announced yesterday that Adobe is acquiring some "vector graphics technology" developed by a French company called Actimagine. The reason behind the acquisition is to extend the reach of Adobe's mobile technologies to high-volume, mass market devices.
Second up, Adobe is currently taking part in the SIBOS conference in Sydney at the moment and it's great to see us making some significant announcements with significant players in the verticals in which we are active. The SIBOS announcement - made with Intel and Tradocs - aims to streamline and automate the international flow of trade documents and give supply-chain partners the "ability to drive compliant workflows for inter-corporate information exchange and routing of trade documents to banks through the SWIFT Trade Services Utility platform utilizing PDF".
Last, but not least, comes this announcement making the launch of Adobe Contribute 4.I've been using the beta of Contribute 4 to author this blog for the last few months. I'm about to upgrade to the full release version. I love it for blogging - very easy and intuitive to use.
As always, if you want more information on any of the above, drop me an email.