Reaching Across All Major OSes
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Companies such as DIRECTV, Fox News and the
Nasdaq stock market that have adopted Adobe AIR
for rich content outside the browser are ensured their AIR
applications will reach across all major operating systems, Adobe officials
said.
"The release of Adobe AIR 1.5 for
Linux builds on our ongoing commitment to the Linux community and our legacy of
creating technologies that work consistently across operating systems,"
said David Wadhwani, general manager and vice president of the Platform
Business Unit at Adobe, in a statement. "Using Adobe AIR,
millions of Web developers can now be Linux developers, and with little effort
and no additional costs, companies can now target emerging markets and a broad
set of new devices where Linux is growing in popularity."
Ludwig said AIR 1.5 includes
functionality introduced in Adobe Flash Player 10, such as support for custom
filters and effects, native 3-D transformation and animation, and extensible
rich text layout. Adobe AIR 1.5 also
incorporates the open-source WebKit HTML engine and now accelerates application
performance with "SquirrelFish," the new WebKit JavaScript
interpreter.
Plus, Adobe AIR 1.5 includes a
new, encrypted database that meets enterprise security compliance requirements
while storing data more securely on customers' computers, Ludwig said.
"Intel and Adobe share a long-standing track record of deep technical
collaboration," said Christos Georgiopoulos, general manager of the Developer
Relations Division for Intel's Software and Services Group, in a statement.
"With Adobe AIR 1.5 now available for
Linux, thousands of developers can run their applications across multiple
operating environments including the PC and, in the future, netbook and mobile
Internet device platforms based on the Intel Atom processor running Moblin
Linux."
Adobe AIR 1.5 for Linux is available
immediately as a free download here. The Adobe AIR
1.5 for Linux software development kit is also available for free. For more
information go to www.adobe.com/go/air.
Meanwhile, Ludwig said Adobe is well on its way toward achieving its goal of
more than 100 million installs of AIR by the
end of 2008.
"We're closing in on the target; we're almost there," he said.
