James Governor's Monkchips

What’s in store for 2010? 9 Trends, Quick Take

2009-11-03T03:34:23-08:00

I just got an inquiry from a client, and rather than just answer it in private, I thought why not share my thoughts here, because you might find them interesting. Its a little early for a predictions post, but I can follow up later. Why only 9 trends? Because the list isn’t finished and you’re bound to suggest some good ones!

Q: Can you talk to technology and innovation trends for the IT industry, business model changes and any other challenges that you think will continue or develop in the coming year.

Ubiquitous analytics. In 2010 business intelligence will become less about the power user, and more about democratised access to the ad hoc query. In memory databases will underpin the trend.
Location, location, location: the new frontier in app dev is location-aware applications and services, for internal, asset and service management, and B2C.
Which underpins a new wave of mobile services as smart phones become pervasive. Augmented Reality will begin to make a mark in the mobile space. Initial experiences in Europe are likely to be in augmented tourism next summer – where you point your phone at a building and it shows you the associated wikipedia entry.
Greener business processes through deeper instrumentation, more effective automation and orchestration. Smart Grids, LessWater, LessCoal etc. Resource footprint reduction will be a megatrend from here on in. See IBM’s Smarter Planet.
Google will significantly ramp up enterprise efforts – notably in sales, but also ecosystem partnerships with the likes of Deloitte and the other Big SIs.
Hybrid Cloud and On Premise models for the enterprise. Hybrid is now just the reality of how we get things done. Just as open source began as a fringe activity, but captured the mainstream, so SaaS and Cloud are increasingly just an economic and technical reality. Cloud doesn’t replace on premise, it augments it.
That said, the Big Cloud Backlash will be in full effect in 2010, after all the hype in 2009.
SOA without the SOA. The hard work done by Oracle, SAP and others will begin to bear fruit. Not in terms of the acronyms loved by Architecture Astronauts such as XML Web Services, WSDL, UDDI and other acronyms – but the componentisation of application suites into more modular services makes them far more amenable to web-based integration.
A big upswing in enterprise demerger activity…. notably in financial services. See today’s EU-led banking announcements, for example. Financial services companies that took major state bailouts are going to be split up. The Great Unbundling offers significant opportunities, but also threats, for technology providers.

Share This

The great unbundling: remaking the economy

2009-10-30T11:17:57-07:00

Too big to fail? The obvious way to remove systemic risk is to distribute risk by taking single points of failure out of the equation. Small is beautiful. How did we kickstart the economy after the 1980s fall? Pulling apart huge conglomerates like Hanson, for one. The same needs to happen now to really get the economy moving. We need to make it a lot easier to identify winners and losers. I was expecting a lot more demerger activity already this time around, whether voluntary or enforced.

Or as Neelie Kroes, EU competition director memorably put it this week:

“Some banks Are Too Big To Fail. However no banks are too big to restructure”.

I concur.

Share This

IBM’s Smarter Utility play: Solutions Architecture for Energy and Utilities Framework (SAFE)

2009-10-30T06:33:20-07:00

Jeff Smith is an old buddy of mine, so its good to see him leading an IBM vertical play that aims to make asset and service management an awful lot more efficient in the utilities industries. Jeff has a solid background in automation from his time at Tivoli, IBM’s management systems management arm, so he knows this stuff pretty much down cold. To deliver smart grids, that allow for more effective energy use and management, we’re going to need much more effective network automation, instrumentation and orchestration. The US government just announced the winners of a $3.4bn smart grid grants/stimulus package, so IBM’s timing couldn’t really be better. I have written at length about alignment between IBM and Obama’s agendas.
For obvious reasons Greenmonk is pretty fired up about this stuff, but given Jeff lives in Austin it made sense to have our very own Michael Coté do an interview and demo. You should watch them.

or here is the extended version

but what you really want to see is a demo, right? Well you’re in luck!

disclosure: IBM sponsored these videos. IBM is also a RedMonk subscription client.

Share This

Towards a Permission-based Web. Wherefore Net Neutrality? Or: Maybe Open Source Wins After All

2009-10-30T06:08:18-07:00

As we rush to purchase Apple products and services on Cupertino’s monochrome treadmill of shiny shiny I can’t help thinking the open web community is losing something vital - a commitment to net neutrality and platform openness.

If a single company can decide what plays on the network and what does not, in arbitrary fashion, how can that be net neutrality? According to Wikipedia

A neutral broadband network is one that is free of restrictions on content, sites, or platforms, on the kinds of equipment that may be attached, and on the modes of communication allowed, as well as one where communication is not unreasonably degraded by other communication streams.

Does that sound like the environment we’re currently buying into? Is the AppStore a neutral network? Should it be?

Is Comcast, the company net neutrality proponents love to hate, really the only company we should be wary of? Pipe level neutrality is surely only one layer of a stack. The wider market always chooses proprietary wrappers - every technology wave is co-opted by a master packager. Success in the IT industry has always been about packaging- doing the best job of packaging technologies as they emerge. Twas ever thus.

IBM System/360 – the first true mainframe was a packaging exercise.
The IBM or Wintel PC was a playing field that said – let the best packager win. Step forward Compaq and latterly Dell.
Windows packaged the TCP/IP stack and brought standard network technology in the enterprise.
Unix was an academic operating system, but packaged up in a system, generated billions of dollars for firms like Sun, in the era of the Unix Wars. With systems packaging came less application portability.

Packaging is great – its how we take things to the mainstream. But packaging also has a cost. Successful technology packaging invariably involves extending the standard componentry being packaged, in order to improve the overall user experience.

It seems to me that Apple is building a Permission-based Web, where we have to ask permission to play, or to sell apps, or whatever. It makes me nervous. But what really makes the current Apple sales explosion so interesting to me is that was initially driven by the Alpha geeks, who normally stay ahead of the curve on the margins of the mainstream.

Alpha geeks and web communities have talked a lot about openness since the very inception of the network. We claim we want open. We throw stones at those we perceive as trying to impinge on that openness.People practically had heart attacks at the idea Microsoft might be in control of our name space when it first talked to Hailstorm. In Europe, which used to be ahead of the USA in terms of mobile services, until Apple came along, the talk was about how to have Open, rather than Walled, Gardens.

Sun has arguably been more open than any other enterprise vendor over the last five years and how did the industry respond – with disinterest, if sales are anything to go by. Tim O’Reilly said a while back that open source in effect no longer matters - the new frontier is data; “The Intel Inside” as he calls it. Tim has an unerring sense of what comes next, and he also has an unusually strong social conscience.

Tim saw the future back in 2004.

Sites such as Google, Amazon, and salesforce.com provide the most serious challenge to the traditional understanding of free and open source software. Here are applications built on top of Linux, but they are fiercely proprietary. What’s more, even when using and modifying software distributed under the most restrictive of free software licenses, the GPL, these sites are not constrained by any of its provisions, all of which are conditioned on the old paradigm. The GPL’s protections are triggered by the act of software distribution, yet web-based application vendors never distribute any software: it is simply performed on the Internet’s global stage, delivered as a service rather than as a packaged software application.

Apple didn’t make the list in 04, but it would now. Tim seems surprisingly passive in his analysis. But I think Open Source and open standards and neutral networks are worth fighting for – because of the potential for transparent development. Learning and pedagogy: “view source”. We need to agitate for open. So much of what makes open source great are the social aspects of the technology. Lower barriers to participation.

Android Coda: Maybe Open Source is the charm after all.

I suspect that Google’s open source Android play will prove Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer right. It was Ballmer that argued that Microsoft had beaten Apple once, and would do so again by being more open, running on a ranger of devices and growing a larger ecosystem. Right analysis of the situation- wrong pick of the winner. With Acer, Asustek, HTC and Samsung Electronics, Motorola, SonyEricsson on board things look very rosy indeed for Android. I myself have an Android-powered HTC Magic. The hardware may not offer the performance and responsiveness of an iPhone, but that’s really just an implementation detail. The Droid is a spec beast.

Since I got the Hero I have been less worried about the Permission-based Web. Or maybe Google’s packaging is so good that I forgot myself. I still think we need to be vigilant about Net Neutrality, and believe it may be time to think of it as a layered architecture. I think the FTC is right to be looking to extend net neutrality to web service providers. They are as much gatekeepers of the web, and controllers of the last mile, as anyone. Especially as the mobile web kicks in. The open source model of Android potentially fragments The Permission Based Web, and associated data ownership-based business models. Perhaps there is life in the old FOSS dog yet.

photo courtesy of sportsilliterate.

Share This

Personal Communities: fundamental changes in business

2009-10-27T12:29:28-07:00

I couldn’t help but notice a link between two tweets that came in within a few seconds of each other. I don’t know the answers, but these are both awfully good questions.

dan_mcweeney Sales people used to be the networks, leads. Now everyone has a community ( or should ) how does that change your business?

then

leashless RT @cheeky_geeky: “You’re not just hiring the person, you’re hiring the community they come with” – http://bit.ly/1zqZ9H (RT @jiconoclast)

I have spoken about the New Patronage Economy – but the implications of personal brand networks can be both negative and positive.

Recent M&A activity in the web consulting space seems to be all about these personal network brands. Think of Altimeter, for example, hiring Jeremiah Owyang, the highly trafficked Web Strategist, from Forrester. Or his enterprisey compadre Ray Wang, who brings the entire AR community with him, being their go to guy.

RedMonk also plays these dynamics. When we hired Coté, having never met him in person, we knew fell well that he brought a community with him – see Drunk and Retired. Same for Tom Raftery.

Of course there is a potential downside to hiring talented, highly networked folks – I am sure Forrester would rather it hadn’t lost so much talent recently… but success in business is all about managing risk.

Personal communities and word of mouth. Nothing is different from business as usual then, other than the internet, and the scale it brings for community building. One other area of the business that should be doing more to identify individuals as root nodes – customer relationship management (CRM). If someone highly connected and popular starts whaling on you, that can be an almost unmanageable crisis.

2.0 can affect your bottom line. Do the maths. Just sayin’.

Share This

Why is Wikipedia anti small business? “Get Better PR”

2009-10-23T09:55:29-07:00

I like Wikipedia a lot. But it infuriates me than while major incumbents in any sector are “notable” enough to be worthy of an entry, small firms, or new ideas, are not. Its bizarre that while RedMonk is cited repeatedly in the knowledge base, when people have tried to create an entry for us it got blocked by an editor.

I would think I were being paranoid where it not for the fact when I met Jimmy Wales a while back his answer when I asked him about the issue was:

“you need to get better PR”.

That is – use a public relations firm to get citations from print publications.

From print publications? From print publications? What the hell are we doing here? Newspapers are going out of business left right and center. Print publications. Bah.

I still love to use Wikipedia, but I do think the obsession with Hits is kind of weird for a Net property. It hurts innovators.

Share This

Critical Mass: Bringing Physics to Social Network Pablum

2009-10-22T10:06:08-07:00

I have been meaning to get a few ideas down about Philip Balls’ Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads To Another for a while. After all, it pretty much blew my head clean off. I totally loved the book – its changed my thinking more than any work of recent time. How I got to the age of 38 without having a real appreciation of statistical physics is beyond me. But the value of the book is that it made me want to dive into exactly that discipline.

That’s the thing. When I was 16 I made a choice – either Maths with statistics or mechanics. Given I was studying Physics and Chemistry, mechanics was clearly the right choice. Doh! nobody explained what Statistics actually was- I just thought it was boring crap that sociology types indulged in. I know. I know. So when Ball pointed out the the Gas Laws were based on statistics I was floored. Really? How could I not know that? Ball brings the world of Hooke and his associate Boyle into life and more importantly into context.

Is there really a physics of social networking, or as Balls puts it, a “new physics of society” though? The book attempts to make that case.

Talking of discipline – its a big book: Cote’ was pretty shocked when he saw the width of it – its 600 pages plus. But its well worth the deep dive into Long Form writing. Not everyone agrees – James Buchan slammed it in a Guardian review. While I would agree Critical Mass finally gets a little flabby in the last two chapters- up to that point its entirely riveting.

Popular Science agrees:

It’s a big book and it’s necessary to bear with Philip Ball through the rather (aptly?) ponderous chapter on Hobbes’ Leviathan up front, but once he gets into statistical physics he takes off.

There’s a lot on economics, on political power, globalization and even the Internet. Again and again the book comes back to the way that mass human action has some resemblances to the physics of large quantities of interacting objects. In physics this has produced a lot of theory based on statistics that does very well at predicting what will actually happen. When it comes to the human world, not entirely surprisingly, things are more complicated. Not only are most human masses not closed systems – so you have to take into account the impact of external forces – but a single individual can have a huge impact. When you are looking at gas molecules you aren’t going to have a Jesus or a Hitler – we, on the other hand, can expect that.

Funnily enough, if you read Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers (a lovely amuse bouche compared to the epic meal of Critical Mass) it becomes abundantly clear that it makes perfect sense that a single individual can make a massive impact- if they are in the right place at the right time, connected to the right people and with the right background. Some atoms in a gas move at incredibly high speeds (its a normal distribution). These are the outliers. But we can only really understand the average behaviour of a great number of such atoms.

Can we really understand aggregates of people in the same way we consider aggregates of molecules? Buchan comes across as a bit small-minded on this question. After all, while human networks are not “closed systems” – neither are physics and mechanics. Sure in Physics 101 we ignore things like the resistance of air in working out the behaviour of a bouncing ball, because we know real life is always more complex. But look at the massive investments made in simulating wind resistance in order to get accurate models of physical behaviours.

With the Internet the science of human breadcrumbs has utterly changed. Google is a counting engine. Twitter is a motherlode of behaviour we can mine. Declarative Living and Tag Gardening can let us “do the math”. Asymmetric Follow is just a scale-free network- but we have the maths at hand.

IBM and SAP are turning social maths into products, through social network analyzer products that parse email paths. If Enterprise 2.0 is to be anything it probably needs to be based on mathematical network theory. What’s the ROI of putting on your pants? Meaningless. But who is talking to whom about what, who was the most influence in a space – these are workable questions.

We make a virtue of ignorance. How many so called “social media experts” have read any network theory? We think we’re so smart. How may social media experts have any understanding of statistical physics? Probably a vanishingly small proportion. But science can teach us a lot if we engage with it. That’s the beautiful lesson of the book.

Share This

IBM to push Linux desktops, and not 10 years too soon!

2009-10-21T11:01:47-07:00

I received a mailer yesterday from IBM that it’s going to roll out its IBM Client for Smart Work, a bundle of IBM applications and the Ubuntu desktop, in the USA. That’s right- just a couple of weeks ago the strategy was aimed squarely and solely at Africa. But then…

The IBM Client for Smart Work package, launched September 24 in Africa, was initially designed for emerging markets but sparked calls for the solution in the U.S. The U.S. version is arriving just in time to help companies avoid the higher licensing, hardware upgrades and migration costs associated with Microsoft Windows 7.

Forgive me- but what?? As if this were new demand… it makes perfect sense for IBM to go after Microsoft, but why wait until Microsoft had an operating system fit for purpose before doing so? Vista was the time to really put the boot in. Windows 7 on the other hand, looks like a viable, even sensible, enterprise play.

Of course desktop strategies and investments are under scrutiny in a way they haven’t been for years. Cloud computing has changed the dynamic somewhat – Rentokil for example recently signed up to 35k Google Apps seats. IBM understands this disruption and is pushing Good Enough accordingly, notably through the Lotus brand.

Lotus general manager Bob Picciano is one of IBM’s best and brightest – he is now apparently tasked with the small matter of leading IBM competition against both Google and Microsoft. Easy job then.

Bob is quoted in the release like so:

“American businesses have asked for a compelling alternative and today we are delivering IBM Client for Smart Work in the U.S. Our goal is to help organizations free up desktop expenses to use in more strategic collaboration projects.”

Given IBM Social Bridgebuilder Andy Piper said he appreciated the historical perspective of some my work, I should perhaps take you all back in time.

Its 1999. A 29 year old ex-journalist is taking his first steps as an analyst at a boutique research firm in Nashua, NH called Illuminata. The firm does a lot of sell-side work, and has an awesome reputation in Systems and storage. The young analyst has been hired to help build the company’s Software practice, and timing couldn’t be better. IBM is getting its act together in terms of establishing a viable, independent software business. Technology fiefdoms are being knocked into somewhat amorphous brands. For a guy that thrives on complexity, and has already been covering IBM for four years, this was just perfect. Sell side – no problem.

But then inbound calls and emails from enterprises start coming in – looking for insights into IBM Software strategy, and asking the specific question: “when will Lotus SmartSuite be available on Linux?”

Customers were looking at Burlington Coat Factory (one of the first wall to wall enterprise Linux shops) and asking for more of the same. SmartSuite? SmartSuite? Remember that? Apparently you can still buy a license for $313.00. That’s right- Lotus used to have an Office suite, but IBM effectively ceded the Office software market to Microsoft. When I took the requests to IBM, and explained customers were willing, even anxious, to pull the trigger, nothing happened.

As far back as 1999 then, some IBM customers were desperate to get off the Microsoft conveyor belt. But IBM was just looking at the server. Its important not to be too revisionist when playing the history game, and clearly there was no obvious desktop Linux distro to support at the time. Certainly we didn’t have Ubuntu with its tagline Linux For Humans. But IBM customers wanted to run IBM desktop apps on Linux.

Ten years later IBM shops are finally getting their chance to go True Blue on the desktop. You certainly can’t blame IBM for opportunistic marketing, trying to elbow its way into the Windows 7 upgrade story. But from where I am sitting I can’t help thinking it should have started on this road earlier if it really wanted to help customers. Africa first? While Vista was flailing, now that was the time to make a run at customer wins in conjunction with Canonical. Imagine how much stronger IBM’s anti Win7 story would be it it already had a host of migrations to point to… in the tech business momentum is everything.

Picciano is going to take the fight to Microsoft, and for obvious reasons Lotus is the right brand to do it. He and Lotus marketing supremo Kristin Lauria seem really focused on the job, and it shows. But Picciano will be making up for lost time. Nearly 10 years of it.

Enterprise customers should (re)size their desktop needs in the the context of both cloud apps and virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI). IBM has a story there too, but there are plenty of options- notably Citrix (an IBM partner). Sun too has an extremely solid VDI story – one that I am surprised more folks haven’t picked up on terms of assets available to Oracle. But Windows 7 is just as likely to play a role as any other desktop technology.

disclosure: IBM is a client. Microsoft is a client. Canonical, the commercial arm of Ubuntu, is a client. Sun was a client. Citrix is not a client. Google is not a client, but we use Google Apps at RedMonk.

In case you’re wondering hatever happened to SmartSuite with respect to the new OpenOffice-based Symphony suite? That’s a story for another day.

Share This

Lotus Knows: IBM Strategy is “Good Enough”

2009-10-16T10:23:24-07:00

“Good enough” – used to be a pejorative at IBM. “Good enough” is what those upstart competitors offered customers, upsetting finely honed pricing and sales models for feature-rich systems and software products. Generally IBM products suffer from an excess of features, rather than a lack. I often joke that IBM never met a feature request it didn’t like.

Over time the “good enough” Microsoft became the feature rich leviathan, and these days Microsoft is probably more obsessive about throwing more features into a product than IBM ever was – many of Vista’s problems were a problem of feature and scope creep.

Nobody would accuse WebSphere of lacking features. Or DB2. Or Rational’s bunch of tools. So what about Lotus? Two major new Lotus strategies are now about good enough:

Last year IBM acquired Outblaze for its limited functionality browser-based email service, in order to compete with Google. The product is now available as LotusLive iNotes (not to be confused with Lotus Notes or even Lotus iNotes]. LotusLive iNotes is aimed squarely at businesses that want offer their employees email, the whole email, and nothing but the email.

Is LotusLive iNotes really “good enough”? Its perhaps important in this case to distinguish between good enough functionality and good enough scalability. That is – LotusLive iNotes may not offer as much functionality as Google Docs, but IBM is certainly ready to position its scalability as an advantage in the face of outages from other “cloud” providers. As Volker Weber puts it Nobody should belittle LotusLive iNotes as enterprise class.

We could dismiss IBM’s good enough cloud mail play as an aberration were it not for the fact IBM is also now pitching Lotus Symphony, based on Open Office as a “good enough” Office suite. IBM is convinced enough that Symphony is good enough that its now finally rolling the suite out to its massive internal user base. Queue some wailing and gnashing of teeth from IBM employees that are used to Microsoft Office. From an outsider perspective I have to say the latest slide presentations coming out of IBM now seem to have more white space, which is goodness. Will IBM face some internal document challenges? Sure. But good enough is just the beachhead. As in other areas- IBM’s employee base is probably the biggest user testing lab in the world.

So Lotus is now going to market with good enough messaging, where IBM explicitly admits in some cases that Google has more functionality. That’s a big change. A change that should benefit enterprise customers: overprovisioning software, and paying through the nose for it, has been the story of the industry, well, forever. Open source turned the dial; IBM learned an awful lot about good enough from Linux. SaaS turned the dial again. And now IBM is starting to explicitly play the good enough game.

I know some folks are not Lotus fans but the kind of segmented, pragmatic approach IBM is taking makes a lot of sense for the portfolio.

Good Enough- it must be a zeitgeist thing. Soon after I started this post this Wired story came out, pitching Google Docs and the Good Enough Revolution. No – Google’s overengineered now, IBM’s the good enough playa .

disclosure: IBM is a client. It paid some T&E for an information management event I attended last week, where I started thinking about IBM and the good enough. Microsoft is also a client. RedMonk pays Google to use Google Docs premium.

Share This

Honey, I Broke The Runtime. From Flash Lite To Flash Like

2009-10-09T11:36:39-07:00

Earlier this week Adobe [client] announced support for Flash on the iPhone. Kind of.

The story has been covered pretty extensively by both Adobe haters and fanboys.

What do I have to add at this point? Not a great deal. But one thing struck me pretty strongly. Having argued in the past that Adobe could open source the core Flash runtime and still offer a solid user experience, but been told that it was verboten to fragment the runtime from a User Experience perspective I am still kind of puzzled about the decision to recompile from Flash development tools to ARM runtimes in order to get onto the iPhone. That is – Adobe’s “Flash Platform” Actionscript tooling now generates something other than Flash, thus – to my mind at least – breaking Flash portability. One unknown remains- what moves Apple will make with respect to Flash-like apps in the App Store. It all depends on how Apple feels, in this new world of the permission-based web.

We know that Apple can show some flexibility here. Phonegap [another client, just signed this week] are just a couple of guys making trouble with dev tools that allow you to develop in HTML and Javascript but then deploy to Android, Blackberry, and iPhone with native system calls.

An express goal of the PhoneGap project is for the project to not exist. We believe in the web and devices should too. The web is moving off the desktop and into the pockets of people all over the world. Phones are the new window to the internet and, currently, they are second class. PhoneGap aims to move your device to a nice first class window. With a foot rest. Maybe a pillow.

Apple banned these apps at first, but then relented so who knows what Apple’s next move will be in terms of Flash-Like apps.

I should point out there was plenty of really positive news from Adobe at its MAX conference. LiveCycle Mosaic ES2 for example is going to change the game in enterprise panes of glass for reporting, social tooling and data integration. Congrats to my friend Matthias Zeller, the guy behind the post-portal era portal, for bringing it home.

James Cameron couldn’t have made Avatar without Adobe tools – and movies are going to get more digital, not less, over the next couple of years. They showed us some rushes at MAX and I was pretty blown away. Mostly because it looks like Hollywood could finally make a decent first of Michael Marshall Smiths‘ Spares.

ColdFusion is now a full citizen in the Eclipse-based Adobe development tools. LiveCycle is too, now. Ben Forta’s teams are doing some really amazing integration work. I can’t help thinking Adobe is now planning seriously for life after Flash. ColdFusion is all about the Web. PDF is a really crucial enterprise standard, and Livecycle is a runtime Adobe can sell.

So why not open source Flash? Open source the core, keep building more around IP around it. Its a hybrid source world. Talking of world, I should also point out something that Silicon Valley firms seem to forget. There is a world out there where not everyone has an iPhone. It may be the only game in town, but its certainly not the only game around.

Android completely rocks, for example. At least it does on my HTC Magic.

And with Android what are you going to do – write off an open source ecoystem with craploads of phone manufactures signing up? Microsoft could buy RIM, the enterprise’s favourite handy, to get back in the game. Apple? The best packager of tech standards wins in any tech wave… but another wave always comes along.

Adobe is moving to the cloud, makes powerful tools, is about creating digital experiences rather than consuming them, and is making the transition from consumer to enterprise as others try and move from enterprise to more consumer-like. It will be fine. But Flash itself could never be enough to keep revenues coming in-because its free – whether on the iPhone or anywhere else. Where else are revenues? In the cloud, for one, – see my post on Adobe’s Omniture acquisition for more thoughts in that space.

Still thinking about this one – but I try not to confuse the future of Flash with the future of Adobe. Is it OK to “break” Flash? Apparently the answer now is yes. Adobe has extended its world, but broken Flash compatibility. Flash Lite is dead. Long live Flash Like.

Share This