It is no more than a private body acting in the interests of its members who include Adobe, Corel, Symantec and Microsoft. Return it by 30 November, the Alliance says before warning recipients to "treat it as seriously as a tax return".
Others include: Flash combined with Macromedia's Flex server software; Sun Microsystems' J2SE; a platform under open-source development by Laszlo Systems; and the collection of established web standards recently dubbed 'Ajax'.
Earlier this month Gartner warned that businesses are losing faith in their tech investments and said IT bosses need to think beyond automating existing business processes or face simply being a commodity utility.
Brushing off concerns raised by net neutrality fans, lobbyists from those sectors say they have no intention to block or degrade any internet content and are merely seeking new revenue sources to offset investments in new offerings, particularly...
The company's strategy is to assemble a series of collaboration products and services on top of its development platform, said Erik Larson, director of marketing and product management at Adobe. The programs were written using its Flex development...
Speaking on the subject of NGA investment, Richards seemed to imply the regulator would not put severe price limitations on those companies, such as BT, who are likely to invest in NGA and sell those services onto other providers.