Historical trivia:

The phrase "author once, play anywhere" was popularized by Macromedia before in-browser Java arrived:
http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd/archives/2007/01…

Adobe Apollo was predated by Macromedia Central, which in turn was predated by the early Macromedia Shockwave project:
http://www.google.com/search?q=shockmachine+%22ma…

jd/adobe

Yes, you're right on about the GUI framework thing. My angle on explaining this was to someone who didn't already know Flex. From that angle, Flex is a sub-set of Apollo and, thus, Apollo has the characteristics of Flex. While they're not technically "the same," in explaining to someone who's just looking at the full package of Apollo, I wanted to keep it as simple as possible: hence saying Apollo is a GUI framework, rather than saying that Apollo wraps Flex, and that Flex is a GUI framework. Hopefully that simplification doesn't cheat the description too much.

I don't use Linux as my desktop PC, so I can't speak directly to those concerns. But, people I know who do use Linux complain about it whenever the topic comes up. Steve has done a better job covering this than I.

Now, I know that this has been "fixed" with F9 (right?), but I think the Linux world is still feeling burned by compatibility and is rightly still suspicious.

The point in mentioning "write once, run anywhere" was to draw attention to the fact (perhaps strong diction) that there's still trust to be demonstrated here to (at least?) the Linux community despite the welcomed, recent fixes.

I'm all for it, I'm just jaundiced: kind of like representative democracy ;)

Thanks for the type corrections. I appreciate it ;)

FWIW, though, I'm not sure that calling Apollo a GUI framework is appropriate. Seems to me like Flex is more of a GUI framework than Apollo is – to me, Apollo is more of a uniter of existing desktop/web frameworks. You could even say it has a function kind of like X-Windows – it is the frameworks layered on top of it that provide the APIs that most developers interact with most of the time.

I'd like to hear more about the issues with the current Flash Player on Linux. Is this a reference to the "yea, but it doesn't run on 64bit/powerpc/etc." complaints, or are there a lot of people with actual compatibility problems on the Linux platform we do support? The feedback from people actually using FP9 on Linux has been almost uniformly positive from what I've seen.

I also want to point out a few possible typos:

* "web-based application would lack or have severally limited" – should be 'severely limited'

* "but as the Linux users reading this show" – is that supposed to be "reading this know"