Adobe hasn’t always been a favourite company of ours,
especially after the recent PDF
overlay advertising plan with the folks at Yahoo! Mail.
But sometimes they things which even we can’t complain about,
and now we will celebrate the company for doing something rather
wonderful.
No, we haven’t gone bipolar. We’re still
well in control of our
senses. We just really, really like what we heard yesterday coming out
of the San Jose-based company’s PR department.
Flash Player 9 and Flash Media Server 3
If you’re familiar with Adobe and its Microsoft-like
aversion to
providing almost any piece of software at anything short of a financial
premium – willingly, at least.
And you have even an trace of an
inkling that you want to get into the service of streaming your own
video content (or that which is produced by others) over the Web
reliably and headache-free, you’ll be thrilled to know that Adobe just released Flash Player 9 and Flash
Media Server 3.
The first of which provides high-definition H.264 support, and
the
latter of which is now far more attainable, economically speaking, for
a much larger group of digital content creators and distributors.
Available At A Much Lower Cost
How attainable? Adobe Flash Media Interactive Server 3,
a product that allows for Web businesses to deliver
“customized
scalable video streaming services, plus multi-way social media
applications”, has now hit the market at a flat cost of
$4,500.
Previously, depending on a company’s needs, the
software could command
up to $45,000. And a pared down, “basic essentials”
sort of solution,
dubbed Flash Media Streaming Server 3,
carries a tag of just $995. Tasty, eh?
Conclusions
There’s no denying that these releases and price
drops have come
about in order for Adobe to maintain momentum and keep safe its current
hold on the Net-based media market.
With Microsoft having joined the
fray this year, it’s now got competition. But the effect of
these
changes made by Adobe are in kind a fantastic benefit for anyone with
video looking spread it far and wide without breaking the bank.
Three cheers for price cuts! Hear, hear!
Happy about the news? Going to nab Flash Media
Server 3 for yourself? Indifferent? Share your thoughts in the comments
below.
Paul Glazowski is a contributing author discussing the social networking world, his work can be found on Profy.com
