Adobe Systems Incorporated today announced it has been
placed in the Visionaries Quadrant in Gartner, Inc’s Mobile Consumer
Application Platform Magic Quadrant report published Dec. 3, 2009.
“We
believe our position in the Visionaries quadrant is a result of our
work and commitment to seamlessly deliver expressive Web applications,
content and video across multiple mobile platforms using the Adobe
Flash Platform,” said Ricky Liversidge, vice president, Product
Marketing, Platform Business Unit at Adobe. “It’s exciting to see
Adobe’s heritage of providing developers the tools and consistent
runtimes to create engaging content broaden to include the mobile
space, and we look forward to continued growth of the mobile platform
over the coming years.”
Adobe has a longstanding
commitment to the mobile industry and has solidified that over the
years through partnerships with 19 of the top 20 handset manufacturers.
Adobe also started the Open Screen Project™, an initiative with close
to 50 industry partners that are working to develop a consistent Flash
runtime for multiple devices. Adobe and partners recently demonstrated
progress of this initiative by announcing beta versions of Flash®
Player 10.1 for desktop and netbook operating systems and the intent to
deliver Flash Player 10.1 for the Google® Android™, Palm® webOS and
Windows® Mobile platforms in early 2010.
