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>> I'm here speaking with Kevin Lynch, chief software
architect of Adobe Systems at Max, 2007. So just give
us an idea of where you're going with Services and how
you intend to make money on it.
>> Sure. Well, Services is a new area for Adobe, we've
been doing some services for a while, like the Connect
service that enables people to collaborate. What we're
working on, though, now, is a number of new services for
designers and developers. So Share Data, for example,
is a way to store documents you're working on,
collaborate with other people. And that's a gigabyte of
free space, it's a free service, and we're also
providing APIs so you can build your own regenerative
applications around that service. And we think that's
going to be kind of a foundation service for us, a lot
of other services and tools will work with that. Buzz
Words [assumed spelling] , of course, can be one of the
first applications that we work at hooking up to Share
so you can work on documents on Share or you can work on
locally. Also, we're working on what we see as some
enabling services for collaboration applications. So
voice is a really important technology for, of course,
communicating with somebody else live, and so we're
working on embedding voice capability, you know, into
the clients on the Web so that you can actually build
regenerative apps that have extremely high quality voice
communication. And that's what we're [Inaudible] --
and the second one is a service to enable rich
collaborations of screen sharing, white boarding, seeing
somebody else's video inside your application. We've
built that right now in the connect application, in the
hosted service with Connect. We're now breaking that up
into pieces enabling developers to make any sort of
collaborative app they want and take advantage of
Adobe's existing collaboration infrastructure to run
those applications. So it's very fast to develop them
with Flex and then they can run right away, using the
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>> These are Web applications that run on the desktop.
Does this make the operating system less important, Air
[assumed spelling], where do you think it's going to go?
>> Well, I think what we're seeing is a big shift to the
Web for application development. And Air is basically
enabling that major trend to the Web to kind of come
full-circle back to the desktop again. And so we're
basically betting on this move to the Web and we're
seeing all kinds of application development go that way
already.
