Respite for Adobe

Some respite for Adobe as Apple has agreed to ease certain restrictions on the use of Adobe software. Adobe's strength lies in desktop softwares to develop graphic applications and UI. In the rich-internet application (RIA) arena, it still lags behind. Acquisition of Maromedia and Flash has not translated into leadership position that it may have hoped for, though Flash video streaming did turn out to be a winner. Even that may be lost to HTML5 if Adobe is not careful. Its about time that Adobe digested Flash and gets back to the good performance that is expected out of a company of its calibre, failing which it would be only fair for developers to punish it further.