Recently, I’ve been wrestling with the term data mashup. I think by now we all know what a Web mashup is, or at least have seen an example using Google Maps. But I’ve heard the term data mashup mentioned a

What you say is absolutely true for Flex 1.5. With Flex 2.0, you will be able to compile Flex applications and run them without a server.

In addition, the Flex 2.0 compiler and SDK will be available for free, so you will not have to pay us any money whatsover to create and deploy a Flex application.

Does that answer your question? :-)

Tinic & Sho: After pointing to Tinic Uro’s blog below, I realized some similarities/differences with Sho Kuwamoto’s writing — they’re in dramatically different places on their product cycles. Tinic is just wrapping up a round of development on the Mac…

>> Thanks for the comment.

Don’t even mention it and especially when you consider that I’m just trying to accumulate enough participation credits for an an early alpha-tester invitation. :)

Kidding aside ;) I just happened to be on the Adobe site, where a whole series of brain flashes (pun inted) got activated.

I was watching a demo with a “Flash-Guy”(:TM:) walking around within PDF documents and that is when I realized that the biggest bang for the buck that MacrAdobe could deliver would be an “Integration Product”.

It would simply put together into a cohisive package, all of the existing wonderful products that already exist within your two fine organization.

Just imagine the power of being able to develop traditional GUI applications that are seamlessly integrated with documents management as well as cohesively integrated teaching.

Just imagine the power of such integrated solutions that would enable self-teaching for the end users and especially when you consider that we are in this electronic interactive age, where nobody reads documentation – not printed documentation, nor even online help.

Therefore, before going down some long winding path in search of a definition of some future RIA mouse-trap, why not first start out simply by re-inventing the old one that is sqeaking right in front of all of our noses ?

P.S. Does your marketing read any of this ? ;)

I think that Zorn in its first incarnation will allow people to put together relatively traditional (client server-like) application interfaces. However, the nature of Web delivery and the reality that RIAs need to live alongside traditional Web applications and content means that even if you deemphasize the “R” part of RIA, you will still need to think through some new issues. That is why, for example, the move toward service oriented architectures is so important for RIAs.

The only missing one is GUI, as in GUI applications. ;)

From reading of your posts, I get an idea that lot of this RIA stuff is still in its definitional stages.

Considering that GUI has been around for quite a while and the fact that it’s still looking for an eloquent deployment solution, why not start Zorn off with a GUI applications version ?

In the process, you would end up its mass introduction to the corporate world, where GUI applications are prevalent and the RIA ones are still around the corner.

Considering that Flex already has enough GUI controls, all you would really need to to is to repackage then within an Eclise IDE.

So, instead of waiting a year to year and a half for a product that still needs to be defined, within a quarter to a quarter and a half you could get the ball rolling by coming out with a slimmed down version that mostly the same masses want yesterday.