desktop systems

In the wake of Thursday's announcement by Adobe Systems that it is launching the Open Screen Project to make it easier for developers to use the company's Flash technology on a variety of devices, the lingering question is whether the move simply comes too late.

Over the last few years, the mobile market has burgeoned into a multibillion-dollar industry, but Adobe has struggled to match its desktop market share. Its Flash software is installed on an estimated 98 percent of desktop systems, but only on 30 percent or so of mobile devices.

Shopatron talked about their use of open source technologies. It was interesting that they not only used open source technologies in their server LAMP (Linux, Apache, mySQL, PHP) configuration but they also took it to the desktop. They chose to standardize on Open Office and Kubuntu as their desktop systems. Here is the video in case you missed it: