There was a very interesting article in InternetWeek on tuesday : "Laszlo Rising: The Inside Story Of A Stealth Vendor's Rich App Plans" (http://www.internetweek.com/story/INW20020827S0008). Laszlo is a small SF start-up (12 people!) that raised $9 million this month. By the end of the year, they should release a new web technology to build Rich Internet App that uses Flash on the client side (but not as an authoring tool) and J2EE on the server side (and later on .NET).
"You've got to fit into today's server infrastructures of J2EE, XML, and Web services," he said. "If you're doing anything other than that, you've got a tough road ahead of you." "From a tool perspective, Laszlo shied away from visually oriented, timeline-based tools that would appeal to graphics artists." ... "Rather, its platform deals with XML and Javascript at a native level and is created using a text-heavy editor, not a visual tool". They definitely try to compete with Macromedia MX by using most of its idea and concepts... Benoit ______________________________________________________________________ This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
