Adobe Flex is quite innovative in its approach and this trend has resulted in creation of numerous frameworks and tools. Flex development process has been RIA-centric and has contributed a lot in creation of enthralling RIAs that have completely changed the way people use internet. The growing interest of the RIA development industry in cloud computing and launch of Azure platform by Microsoft has thrown open a big challenge for Adobe.

Flex development has become synonymous with RIA development. The constant innovations in Flex products and open source nature have allowed Flex community to carve a niche on the RIA development platform. The software industry is on constant move and cloud computing is the next important goal. Adobe understands this and is moving in that direction.

Adobe enjoys the RIA advantage over its rival Microsoft Azure. It needs to Flex its muscles by conditioning an appropriate Flex version for the cloud computing. It can capitalize well on its association with RIA development and prepare itself ahead for the cloud computing battle with Microsoft. Adobe’s latest release, Flex SDK4 is the natural choice of the Adobe, in its attempt to implement SaaS compliant Flex version. By implementing, innovative and groundbreaking technological features into Flex SDK4, Adobe wants to capitalize on its RIA advantage before the onset of the cloud computing war with Microsoft’s Azure platform.

The battle between these two giants will be blessing for the developers as they will get access to even better tools that can create more elegant and interactive RIAs. The Flex developers’ creative abilities will extend beyond the scope of present day tools, to the next level, where they will successfully develop more wondrous and thumping RIAs. These RIAs when hosted on the server will create magical effect on the users so that they will keep coming back, to lengthen their delightful experience.