It has been a busy week for RIA Technologies as the market continues to heat up. The Twitter streams were all a buzz with #SXSW and RIA featured prominently. Gartner's Market Scope on RIA was picked up by SD Times, ZDnet highlighted Forrester's research on Saas and the New York Times discussed Silverlight Version 3. Here are this week's noteworthy posts and articles.
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The RIA Triumvirate at SXSW 2009
Red Monk
By Michael Cote, March 17, 2009
Thankfully for them each member of the RIA Triumvirate were in attendance. There’ve been budget cut‑backs, hiring freezes, and other Financial Abyss freak out tactics from each of them, but SXSW is a conference not be missed by the three with that all important three‑letter strategy: RIA.
Data Watch: Rating RIA platforms
SD Times
By Staff Writer, March 15, 2009
Adobe received the highest rating among companies with RIA platforms in Gartner’s “MarketScope for AJAX Technology and RIA Platforms" survey, scoring the only “Strong Positive” rating. The companies, which included Google, Microsoft and Oracle, were rated based on market adoption and platform features, among other criteria....
SYS-CON Media
By Bert Halstead, March 13, 2009
Adobe has released their new AIR product with much fanfare about letting developers "use proven Web technologies to build rich Internet applications that deploy to the desktop and run across operating systems." The grand vision that's being promoted is that AIR is pioneering the application development model of the future, where cross‑platform applications will be developed using a platform‑independent tool such as AIR, and then deployed across the Web as downloadable gadgets that can be installed on any computer...
Forrester Research: SaaS gains enterprise adoption, expands beyond 'vanilla' offerings
ZDNet
By Dana Gardner, March 17, 2009
Software as a service (SaaS) is coming into its own, as interest and adoption continue to grow among enterprises and SaaS itself expands to meet the challenge...
Groovy and Grails Updated
Dr. Dobb's Journal
By Staff Writer, March 17, 2009
SpringSource has announced the availability of Grails 1.1, a rapid web application development framework based on Groovy and Spring. The company also released Groovy 1.6, the dynamic language for the Java Virtual Machine (JVM), that provides seamless integration with Java.
Microsoft to highlight Silverlight 3 technology
New York Times
By Paul Krill, March 17, 2009
Microsoft will tout at the Mix09 conference in Las Vegas this week its planned Silverlight 3 rich Internet application technology along with a host of other developer‑related offerings, according to the conference Web site.
The Weekly RIA RoundUp for March 16
Inside RIA.com
By David Tucker, March 16, 2009
This week we look forward to SXSW and Mix '09 and look back on Facebook coming to the desktop, a preview of Pro JavaFX, a tool to help designers get started with Silverlight, more information on Mozilla Bespin, and new AIR features in Aptana Studio. All this and more on the Weekly RIA RoundUp from InsideRIA.
Presentation: Rich Internet Applications with Flex and AIR
InfoQ
By Abel Avram, March 11, 2009
In this presentation recorded during QCon London 2008, Christophe Coenraets presents Flex and AIR, two technologies from Adobe used to create, deploy and run Rich Internet Applications. After a brief introduction to each technology, Coenraets showed some applications built with them.
Adobe's Progress Report
SYS-CON Media
By Staff Writer, March 17, 2009
This week Microsoft will make a number of announcements in the RIA space. The rumor has it that Silverlight 3 is going to be out. The rumor has it that it'll start competing with Adobe AIR. Let's take a quick look at the Adobe's progress report in the RIA space.
New Poll: ActionScript is now among the most popular languages. Which of these other languages do you use the most?
Inside RIA.com
By Rich Tretola, March 16, 2009
Recently O'Reilly's quarterly State of the Computer Book Market analysis ‑ Part IV, Languages ‑ was released. If book sales are any indication, ActionScript is now among the most popular languages. So, with our new poll question we would like to know which other language you use the most. I realize that you may use many of the languages on our list, so please leave comments as well. To take part in our poll, please click here.
BY Richard Treadway
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Richard Treadway is VP Product Strategy, Curl Inc. Prior to joining Curl, Richard served also served as Vice President of Engineering and Product Management for BEA systems where he led efforts in developing BEA WebLogic Portal. He is responsible for managing all aspects of Curl's re-launch into the North American Market.
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