On Mon, 2008-05-19 at 15:09 -0500, James Cornell wrote: > Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: > > On Mon, 2008-05-19 at 08:41 -0700, Alan Coopersmith wrote: > > > >> http://blogs.adobe.com/acroread/2008/05/adobe_reader_on_solaris_x86_co.html > >> > >> > > > > Wow, that is pretty spooky; will we eventually see Flash 10 on Solaris? > > maybe Air and the Media Player? > > > > Matthew > > > > _______________________________________________ > > desktop-discuss mailing list > > desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org > > > Probably not Air or Media Player, they haven't even got an alpha/beta > out to Linux, pure vaporware at the moment. I'm pretty sure given > Adobe's bad track record they will gimp features in the Solaris version, > just you watch! How can we adopt Air, really? It's not even up to par > with Flash. > > James
Hence the reason I think that Sun should work with Novell on Mono and Moonlight. It reminds me of what a person said on zdnet saying, "why should Adobe care about Solaris" - the question I ask in return is this; they always piss and moan about Microsoft, and yet, through their failure to support alternative platforms properly - they actually support Microsofts monopoly. Microsoft monopoly just didn't appear out of the blue, it was created by a concerted effort by the likes of Adobe to deliberately refuse to support alternative operating systems. Now, I wouldn't care - but having heard their piss and moan over Microsoft including PDF support with Office 2007 (but hasn't gone ahead because of that whinging by Adobe) - I personally hope that Microsoft does take Adobe to the cleaners with their expression package, to be completely frank. I mean, this is an example; imagine if Sun only provided Java for Microsoft Windows - then turned around whining about Microsofts monopoly; would anyone take Sun seriously? Matthew
