Adobe's Apollo Program

Offline applications have often been a thorn in the side of developers. Adobe is coming to the rescue - the company has begun work on a project, dubbed Apollo, which would allow developers to insert hooks for portability to offline clients. Adobe Chief Software Architect Kevin Lynch says that Apollo is one of the first results of Flash business model is also something the company is keeping in mind, hoping to model Apollo's version after it. This "standard for delivering high-impact, rich Web content," as Adobe describes it, has become an extremely popular product since its introduction in 1996. Lynch says Apollo will come out as a developer release "sometime this year." It is probably a measure against Microsoft's looming suite of products that target Adobe's customer base. Dreamweaver and Flex are two of the endangered programs, and features of the Vista platform could threaten Adobe's PDF and Flash. Adobe seems to be preparing for Del.icio.us") | Yahoo! My Web Technorati: Doug is a staff writer for Murdok for the latest eBusiness news.