Adobe Systems today announced it will release the remoting and messaging technologies used in Flex, Flash and other Adobe products as open source projects. Because the technologies are fairly mature, Adobe isn’t so much looking for help from the open source community as it is looking to get its technology into more hands.

Adobe intends to release the remoting and HTTP-based messaging technologies in its LiveCycle Data Services ES along with the Action Message Format (AMF) protocol specification under the named BlazeDS. They will be made available as public betas under the Lesser General Public License (LGPL) v3 and downloadable from Adobe Labs

The Action Message Format (AMF3) is a binary data protocol specification used in a variety of Adobe products, including Flash, which is used on almost every computer due to its availability on Linux and Mac OS in addition to Windows.

Adobe said BlazeDS will allow developers to add data connectivity to rich Internet applications (RIAs) (define), such as its Flex and AIR client technologies, for real-time collaboration and data-push capabilities. It will also allow RIAs to easily connect back to server applications ranging from Java apps to Adobe ColdFusion components. >>>>>

My new avatar from today onwards …. so if you see this anywhere on the internet, then it is me

… btw, do you know where the word avatar comes from …. no … then head here for a small introduction to this magical word.

You can now test the Linux operating system and desktop environment. It’s as easy as ABC.

The Linux Test is just that, a very clever way for anyone to experience Linux on their Windows PC without having to install anything. Just hit the ‘START Linux’ button  and a Linux OS will start up in a virtual space.  You’ll need an Internet connection. Yes, it runs a much much slower than normal full install will, or even LiveCD/DVD, but then again it’s a great way to get acquainted with minimal of what Linux has to offer and to try out the included applications such as Open Office 1.1 and few others. be much better if they had updated their applications, and provide both KDE, at least 3.5, and Gnome versions of it.

Here is a quick and small video showing the execution of this application on my …. hmm hmm …. system:

Now, ain’t that cool …. I mean that I have seen now GaZiLLiON ways of how you can run, launch and test Linux OS.

True or False: Switching from a Windows-operated computer to a Linux-operated one could slash computer-generated e-waste levels by 50%.

The answer is: TRUE

A UK government study in late 2004 reported that there were substantial green benefits to running a Linux open source operating system (OS) on computers instead of the ubiquitous Windows OS, owned by Microsoft. The main problem with Windows users was that they had to change their computer twice as many times as Linux users, on average, thereby effectively creating twice as much computer-generated e-waste.

The report, titled, “Office of Government Commerce: Open Source Software Trials in Government – Final Report” reported the following:

“There are also potential Green Agenda benefits, through reducing the energy and resources consumed in manufacturing replacement equipment, and reducing landfill requirements and costs arising from disposal of redundant equipment.

“Industry observers quote a typical hardware refresh period for Microsoft Windows systems as 3-4 years; a major UK manufacturing organisation quotes its hardware refresh period for Linux systems as 6-8 years.”

-  EcoGeek (original)