Abobe’s much hyped Apollo, a cross operating system runtime that allows developers to build and deploy Rich Internet Applications (a sort of Sun Java for Web 2.0) is to be released to the public for Alpha testing, according to ZDNet.
Whilst the launch will cause much excitement amongst the Web 2.0 coding crowd, Apollo faces the same difficulties Sun faced in trying to make Java the cross operating system standard it wanted, essentially Microsoft and its suite of existing products. I’m far from an expert on how Apollo will work, but certainly you can hear the echos of Java circa 1999 in the Apollo hype now. One to watch.
Originally posted on March 18, 2007 @ 10:27 pm