Flex brings the capabilities of Flash design and development to the masses, including business application developers and corporate developers, by using an XML-based language known as MXML—Macromedia’s own technology that stands for Maximum Experience Markup Language—Mendels said.
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,4149,1385585,00.asp
Today, Macromedia plans to release a beta version of Flex, a server software product and application framework that can be used with the tools and infrastructure corporate developers are already using.
http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/software/appdev/story/0,10801,87165,00.html
Brown said Macromedia Flex can “bridge the gap” between these two types of developers, allowing them to provide a better user experience overall for customers accessing enterprise applications.
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