Comments on: Adobe Goes SaaS Applications – Buzzword and Project “Share”

By: Adobe Releases Spreadsheet SaaS Application And Adds Premium Version | CloudAve

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 08:32:45 +0000

[...] of Buzzword exposed the dilemma faced by Adobe in this era of SaaS. I strongly recommend the post written by Redmonk’s Michael Cote at that time. Later in May of this year, they announced the release of [...]

By: People Over Process » LiveCycle on EC2 - Adobe in the Clouds, an Update

People Over Process » LiveCycle on EC2 - Adobe in the Clouds, an Update — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 23:06:23 +0000

[...] They actually have had several hosted services for sometime, long enough to EoL some of them. Adobe acquired Buzzword, a hosted, Flex based word processor; finally launching Acrobat.com not too long [...]

By: brian

brian — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 08:59:38 +0000

Regarding:

“More technologies to fill out spreadsheets and presentation software. Obviously, applications in Flash, Flex, and AIR will be on the top of the list.”

You should check out sliderocket.com it looks like it could fit the bill. Similar look and feel, feature rich would be an understatement.

Agreed, great great write up!

By: People Over Process » The Return of Paying for Software

People Over Process » The Return of Paying for Software — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:21:10 +0000

[...] Facebook, and IM. And there’s the encroachment on Microsoft Office from Google Docs, ZoHo, Adobe Buzzword, and [...]

By: People Over Process » Getting “Love” (and Attention) for Your Whizbang 2.0 Application - Fast, Frequent Features

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 15:59:36 +0000

[...] Flash widgets to look at the documents (as above), and converting documents to PDF. More detail here and [...]

By: People Over Process » SAP TechEd ‘07 - CommunityDay, Who’s Hungry, Who’s Burping

Tue, 02 Oct 2007 21:54:21 +0000

[...] and I have been in Las Vegas this week for SAP TechEd. As mentioned last week, we hosted a RedMonk track during Community Day. We had four sessions ranging from AIR, to Flex [...]

By: People Over Process » SAP TechEd ‘07 - CommunityDay, Code Hunger

People Over Process » SAP TechEd ‘07 - CommunityDay, Code Hunger — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 21:53:17 +0000

[...] and I have been in Las Vegas this week for SAP TechEd. As mentioned last week, we hosted a RedMonk track during Community Day. We had four sessions ranging from AIR, to Flex [...]

By: cote

cote — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 16:28:12 +0000

Thanks for all the comments, Andrew. No problem on all the coffee, so much the better ;)

By: Andrew Shebanow

Andrew Shebanow — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 03:55:04 +0000

Sorry, too wired on caffeine here at MAX. But one last point, then I’ll stop. I promise.

Here’s an example of Flash/Flex being used at web scale: http://maps.yahoo.com/ – doesn’t get much bigger than that…

By: Andrew Shebanow

Andrew Shebanow — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 03:44:54 +0000

Oh, and on lock-in: I agree that URLs can be used as a form of lock-in, but want to point out that we went to great lengths in Share to make it NOT be a walled garden. Downloading documents is easy for both the owner and for those they share with, our REST APIs allow docs to be retrieved, and so on and so on. This was a big touchstone for me in the design, and I’m proud of what we’ve done – its as good a compromise between being “viral” and being open as any I’ve seen. But of course I’m very open to feedback on ways we could make it even more open.