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January 24, 2007
Malik: Adobe, P2P
Malik: Adobe, P2P: Om Malik writes "Adobe and its P2P Ambitions" today. The second paragraph bases the story on "After being tipped off by one of our readers, we were able to confirm with our sources", but further down he does cite two verifiable items in the public record: this month's press release about Adobe and VeriSign, Flash Media Server and Kontiki; and records at Linkedin which says that two principals of a small software company joined Adobe last year. On the latter, I don't see a record at LinkedIn for "Mathew Kaufman", and "Matthew Kaufman" returns too many records, and Michael Thornburgh requires membership for viewing -- I can't confirm. These two items may be connected, or may not be connected... even if the second item is true, these might be actions of separate business units, can't tell. When I think of "peer to peer" myself I think of computers connecting to each other, rather than communicating through a central server, just the natural network pattern... but "peer to peer" carries a whole raft of varying connotations for other people, though, so conversations could diverge very quickly. Summary: I don't think we have enough info yet to talk about "Adobe and its P2P Ambitions", or even whether it has any... can hypothesize, but so far we've got just two datapoints cited here.
Posted by JohnDowdell at January 24, 2007 06:18 AM
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Michael Calore, at WIRED, notes that Om focused on Adobe Flash Player and video, but wonders how peer-to-peer distribution could affect other Adobe technologies too:
"However, I see Adobe's P2P experiments heading down a different road, at least in the short term -- one that leads to Acrobat. The latest version of Abode Acrobat, the application that allows users to create and share PDF documents, has some powerful sharing features built in. Workers can collaborate by making real-time shared changes to documents. There's also a 'real-time meeting room' that lets groups collaborate on documents while a chat session runs next to the page edits. I'd argue that with a better P2P backbone, Adobe can add even more sharing features to the app, including videoconferencing, and give users the ability to easily add and edit hi-res images and large audio files within a live collaboration environment."
He also thinks about Breeze, Flex, Apollo too.
Posted by: John Dowdell at January 24, 2007 06:53 PM