Adobe greased up Monday for its wrestling match with Microsoft over who gets to call the shots in the all-important rich Internet apps (RIA) department, that blurry future where web applications and desktop applications start looking and acting like each other.
It was for this coming Armageddon that Microsoft created the Silverlight browser plug-in, and is about to roll out a beta Silverlight 2 that will let developers write RIAs for Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari using .NET widgetry and any .NET language. AIR, like Google Gears, is supposed to make web applications like Adobe’s recently acquired Buzzword word processor accessible independent of the Internet and give them the familiar facilities of the desktop like, say, drag-and-drop and local data storage.The way it works developers use web technologies like HTML, 
VigilantJon wrote: 2 points on this:
1) Depending on the organization, why buy and go through that risk? Outsourcing this level of support and technology reduces organizational strain enabling IT to focus on improving business integration and innovation. This is not just an infrastructure monitoring problem, so picking a company who understands service management and service warranty is a must.
2) While grouping services, it is imperative that organizations look at their services and determine - what are those t...
Dec. 1, 2009 09:54 AM EST
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