Flex for Linux

Adobe has been very aggressive in its releases of their framework, products and applications. Just recently, eBay has released the desktop version with cool interface products. Using Adobe’s AIR technology, it’s poised to become a very popular tool of eBay, plus the idea of getting out of browser using Ajax has never been realized until the creation of eBay.

In Adobe lab’s website, you can easily see how things are rolling out really fast. Setting aside AIR, Adobe has again focused its attention to its powerful framework, FLEX. This framework has been out of Beta version for sometime. During the AjaxWorld conference Adobe was able to present the beauty of the product and has received some nods from different developers. But one thing’s lacking: a linux-based version of the framework.

FLEX may be a powerful framework to standard OS as the backbone is already set. Implementing Ajax based programs and sites will be very easy. Just think about it: OS serves as the backbone of everything and an unstable backbone will certainly crumble the whole system.

For FLEX to run, it just doesn’t need any backbone but one strong backbone. Adobe doesn’t want to accept this sitting down, millions of Linux users would love to see Ajax implemented in their websites. There may be other frameworks that work perfectly with Linux but as greedy as we are with development, we need to have FLEX in Linux.

Recently Adobe announced that it will be releasing its beta version of FLEX for Linux. For now users will be able to experience, in limited capabilities, FLEX in Linux. The announcement is seen to be very aggressive for Adobe. With this release, FLEX will now be able to be friendly with Linux.

Looking at the trend of Adobe form the time they release the Beta from getting out of it, is really fast. It could only be the AjaxWorld conference that prompted the company to speed things up especially on AIR, but we’re hoping FLEX will be out of beta before December. So what about Eclipse? As Flex will be in beta version of Linux, eclipse doesn’t need to be changed as FLEX will stabilize Eclipse. This is an easy escape for Adobe.

The beta version may show some problems but as this baby is in its young age, we understand. With all the great things that happening in Linux, what’s the implication of FLEX as it comes to Linux? Mash-ups will no longer be limited to certain products as the addition of FLEX will ensure proper functionality of a single product. It could be the turning point of Linux based programs or just another program waiting to be discarded.

However, Adobe has come a long way of developing this program; they don’t want to do it for nothing. For Linux users, you could expect some programs that are being used in FLEX with all the flashy things that you also see in standard OS. If no one will bring out the beauty of Flex in Linux, you can be sure Adobe will do something about it.