Adobe AIR

Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR), codenamed and originally named Apollo, is a cross-OS runtime environment for building Rich Internet Applications, using Flash, Flex, HTML, Ajax, that can be deployed as a desktop application.

A public preview release of the AIR runtime, then known as Apollo, along with an SDK and extension for developing Apollo applications with the Flex framework, was released on March 19th, 2007. On June 10, 2007, it was renamed to AIR and a public beta of the runtime was launched. A month after AIR was released for Alpha, Digg announced a contest where entrants must use AIR to create Digg visualizations.

It faces competition from:
1) Microsoft Silverlight which also promises to create a framework that blends desktop applications with Internet applications
2) Google Gears which is a beta open source technology for creating offline web applications
3) JavaFX from Sun Microsystems

AIR is expected to be released in the second half of 2007.
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-Mohsin