On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 8:39 AM, Scott Stewart <[email protected]>wrote:
> I think flash will always have a place, probably moved into an > enterprise position. There are two major things that HTML 5 doesn't > support out of the box, streaming and digital rights management. Flash > does both. > I think it will remain in place in the Enterprise for awhile just simply due to organizational inertia. Large corporations move slowly. However, these are both things that can easily be implemented as a standard within browsers. Given time, I think that these will not prove to be unique to Flash. Really, something I've been talking and thinking about for awhile is the difference between a consumer decision and a business decision. I think it's important to draw a distinction between server side technology (business decisions) and client side technology (consumer decisions). ColdFusion, as an example, is still a fine choice for a server side technologies because it is very capable, and the business gets to make that decision. The consumer really could care less what's on the server as long as it works. Flash, browsers, devices... These are all client side and that makes them consumer decisions. A business can talk all day long about what client side techs are their favorites, but in the end, the consumer makes the decision and market share is driven by consumers. Businesses who do not recognize this get further and further behind each day that they hold onto the older client side tech. Within an enterprise, the business does control the consumers to an extent, but I would say that employees are already increasingly driving device adoption faster than the business can keep up. Sure employees still have that old blackberry, but they only begrudgingly use it to check company mail. If they can, they use their OTHER PHONE - their iPhone/Droid for everything else. In my opinion, that's driving the enterprise to change, like it or not. The jist I got from reading the brief is that the focus will be on > making sure that AIR works on mobile platforms and using that to > enclose Flash apps... I don't see this as viable, even in the short term. -Cameron -- Cameron Childress -- p: 678.637.5072 im: cameroncf facebook <http://www.facebook.com/cameroncf> | twitter<http://twitter.com/cameronc> | google+ <https://profiles.google.com/u/0/117829379451708140985> ... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:343974 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
