Adobe Announcements At Adobe MAX 2009

I’m here at the Adobe MAX press room, and there’s already several press releases and announcements that will interest designers. Here are several of them:

• Adobe Unveils First Full Flash Player for Mobile Devices and PCs. It’s Flash Player 10.1 and it will be Adobe’s major push to get a consistent Flash presence on mobile devices. They have already enlisted some strong partners including NVIDIA, Qualcomm and Nokia as well as RIM, who has joined Adobe’s Open Screen Project. Google also quietly joined the Open Screen Project yesterday. Adobe just announced these today and the press room is a flurry of paper right now, so I honestly haven’t had time to digest this information. I hope to publish a follow-up article during MAX.
• Adobe Flash Platform Speeds Web Innovation Across Desktops and Devices. This announcement mentions new products such as Flash Player 10.1 (mentioned above), Adobe AIR 2.0 (previews at MAX and beta available later this year), second betas of Flash Builder (previously Flex) and Flash Catalyst. There’s also mention of a “Project Zeri,” a new protocol support for media delivery with HTTP streaming on the Flash Platform.
• Adobe ColdFusion 9 Now Available. There are many CF developers here at MAX, and this is surely welcome news. The announcement also mentions Adobe® ColdFusion® Builder™ Beta 2 and a private beta of the new ColdFusion 9 in the Cloud that will run in the Amazon Web Services environment and enable more developers to access the power of ColdFusion as a hosted service.

  There’s a whole lot of material to go through here and Adobe MAX 2009 hasn’t even started (I’m waiting for the keynote to begin), so stay tuned for much more!