Adobe launches Flex 2

NEW DELHI

JULY 17, 2006

Adobe Systems
Incorporated today announced the availability of the Adobe Flex 2 product line
and Adobe Flash Player 9. It also introduced a new tiered licensing model to
bring the power of Flex development within reach of every application developer.

With introduction
of the free Adobe Flex 2 Software Development Kit (SDK), Adobe is equipping
developers to build a new class of rich Internet applications with improved
usability and effectiveness.

Category leaders
across various industries  - including Boeing, Dow Jones Indexes, Samsung
and SAP - have been actively using Adobe Flex software and the Flash player to
build next generation Web applications that combine the benefits of desktop
software with the reach of the Web to create more valuable user experiences.

”With Flex 2, we
have improved the richness and usability of application interfaces available to
our staff, which contributes directly to how productive we can be,” said Chris
Culhane, software engineer for Sun Life Financial. “On the development side,
we can develop applications twice as fast compared to developing in other
environments. We write less code, the Flex applications integrate seamlessly
with backend systems, and the final applications are easier to maintain.”

The Flex 2 product
line provides developers with a comprehensive, integrated set of tools and
technology for fast, end-to-end development of rich and innovative web
applications. With the Flex 2 SDK and Flex Data Services 2 Express, a single-CPU
production license that provides powerful message-based data management
services, developers have everything they need to build and deploy complete rich
Internet applications with no software licensing costs.

For increased
productivity, developers can use Flex Builder 2, a powerful Eclipse-based
integrated development environment (IDE). Flex Data Services 2 empowers
developers to create data-intensive applications that include real time data
synchronization and collaboration capabilities.

Additionally,
Flash Player 9 provides a more secure, lightweight and robust runtime
environment for enterprise-ready rich Internet applications. Flash Player 9
offers Flex developers up to 10 times faster performance through ActionScript
3.0 and a new ActionScript Virtual Machine (AVM), making it the ideal client
runtime for next generation rich Internet applications.

The Adobe Flex 2
product line is available now in English. The Adobe Flex 2 SDK, which includes
the Flex framework and command line compiler, is available free of charge. Adobe
Flex Builder 2 is available for an estimated street price of $ 499. Adobe Flex
Builder 2 with Charting is available for an estimated street price of $ 749.

Adobe Flex Data
Services 2 Express, which includes a single full production license for
deploying applications on a single CPU, is available free of charge. List
pricing for Adobe Flex Data Services 2 is $20,000 per CPU plus maintenance and
support.