This piece in InfoWorld underscores the emerging trend towards rich Internet applications. It's great to see industry recognition for the category, though it still appears that people are just scratching the surface of what "rich" really means.
Macromedia believes that RIA's (rich internet apps) combine content (text/graphics/audio/video/motion), applications (complex UI, web services, biz logic and data) and communications (real-time n-way media messaging and shared data). While there are other companies focused on putting more power on the client, I haven't seen anything yet that shares this approach/philosophy to RIA's.
While smaller vendors and efforts attempt to break through, Macromedia community designers and developers are blasting forward with innovative RIA's in the thousands!
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