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Adobe joins Linux Foundation, develops Air for Linux
Releases early version of its platform for rich Internet applications to run on Linux
By Peter Sayer

March 31, 2008 (IDG News Service) Adobe Systems Inc. released an early alpha version of its Air rich Internet application platform for Linux today and announced that it has joined the Linux Foundation, a nonprofit organization that promotes and standardizes Linux.
Air allows Internet-enabled applications to run on Windows and Mac OS X desktops. Air applications use the same technologies as Web applications built to run inside a browser, including HTML, AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) and Flash, Adobe's own multimedia programming language.

The Air runtime framework is already available for Windows and Mac OS X. Adobe's goal is to allow such applications to also run on Linux, although some applications may not work with the version released today.
Adobe described this Linux version of Air as "alpha quality," meaning it will still have bugs and will lack some key features that will be in the final version. The bugs include an inability to work with GNU Java -- the alpha version will work only with Sun Java. Adobe has not yet implemented features such as document printing, IPv6 (Internet Protocol Version 6), support for multiple monitors and digital rights management.

Programmers can use Adobe's Flex software-development tools to build applications for Air. The company also released Adobe Flex Builder Linux Alpha 3, allowing developers to build Flex applications using Linux.

As a member of the Linux Foundation, Adobe will join companies including Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Google and Nokia. The foundation was formed last year from the merger of the Open Source Development Labs and the Free Standards Group.
Although the Linux Foundation hailed Adobe's arrival as "a natural extension of its commitment to open standards and open source," that commitment stops short of publishing source code for the Linux version of Air. Adobe's end-user license for the code explicitly forbids any attempt to "reverse-engineer, decompile, disassemble or otherwise attempt to discover the source code of the software."

Adobe has just joined with the Linux operating system to develop Air which is an internet application platform. This program can run on Windows and Mac OS desktops.
It uses the same features as many other applications. The program is already available but some applications may not be able to run on the version released today. Not only is Adobe joining Linux, it is also joining other companies such as IBM, Google, Hewlett-Packard, and Nokia.