Macromedia Unvails New Product

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Origanily posted by JC at Ultrashock:

New product: Macromedia Central
The biggest story from San Fransisco and FlashForward today was the announcement of a brand new consumer product: Macromedia Central

People on the FlashCoders list have been onto this for quite some time, but now it’s revealed. Macromedia Central will become a way to distribute Flash-made applications.

Central is nothing less than a stroke of genious. It is an app that sits on a users desktop and makes it really easy to add the Flash applications you choose. What really makes this a great idea is that Central has a special caching system built into so that dynamic apps will work even when the user is not connected. Macromedia calls this “the occasionally-connected application” that will detect when it’s connected and grab the data it needs.

Central also makes it easy to sell applications and content. Content may have an expiry based on when it was installed to allow “try before you buy” and the system allows for easy updates. Central is sheduled to be released this summer, but is announced now as a beta to build up content for the launch.

Read more on Macromedia DevNet

Sounds good to me!

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I can’t wait!

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yep… i read about it… seems really cool :slight_smile:

They’ve also released flash com server mx 1.5 which has a couple more features, some fixes and a linux version. There’s a free, fully functionaly developer version of it that’s free. If you’ve got the time, download it on your server and try it, it’s really worth it :slight_smile:

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I most def will! well i will have they guy who owns the server do it. but i never really got whats so good about it, just like a db for flash?

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you’re a little late there :wink:

http://www.kirupaforum.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=18777&highlight=central

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aww man! lol and then soulty posted the Maya 5 news, which made me poop and pee my opants