RIA related news: Adobe Flex SDK goes open-source

This morning Adobe made a strategic announcement for it's Flex/Apollo platform (aka the next generation of Flash). Smart move on their part; I expect this will help solidify their position as a quasi-standard for RIAs even before their latest technology is fully unveiled. http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/pressroom/pressreleases/200704/042607Flex.html Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq: ADBE) today announced plans to release source code for Adobe(r) Flex=99 as open source. This initiative will let developers worldwide participate in the growth of the industry's most advanced framework for building cross-operating system rich Internet applications (RIAs) for the Web and enabling new Apollo applications for the desktop. The open source Flex SDK and documentation will be available under the Mozilla Public License (MPL). http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Flex:Open_Source Adobe is announcing plans to open source Flex under the Mozilla Public License (MPL). This includes not only the source to the ActionScript components from the Flex SDK, which have been available in source code form with the SDK since Flex 2 was released, but also includes the Java source code for the ActionScript and MXML compilers, the ActionScript debugger and the core ActionScript libraries from the SDK. The Flex SDK includes all of the components needed to create Flex applications that run in any browser - on Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux and on now on the desktop using "Apollo". More info here: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Stewart/?p=353 I've been reading on the blogs lately that a number of programming/scripting languages have starting to build bindings to utilize Flex as their GUI engine. IIRC Haskell and a few others, but if Adobe delivers, we should see this trend continue (and perhaps a drop-off in languages piggy-backing on MS .NET). Ed