Rags to Riches

en route to a “richer” Internet

1. ambatisreedhar 05.09.08 / 11am

   thanks Mrinal
2. Anand Vardhan 05.09.08 / 12pm

   True ways Mrinal
   Nice post.

   Its not only about this confusion. The most funniest part you will find when these A-Listers start giving you GYAN on something which is totally on wrong assumptions. Silverlight has yet too many limitations and has a long way to go to compete with Adobe Flex. While on the other hand JavaFX, everyone knows what happend to Java Applet or any other UI initiatives which Sun took to compete with Adobe initiatives. I can only say they are just trying hard to swim in the high tide to compete in a battle which is always on Adobe’s side. As you mentioned they are coming up with some ideas equivalent to Thermo, but do you think they can really blend Adobe propriatory technologies like pdf,swf,png and all as nicely as Adobe can. No ways, at least I don’t see any such thing coming in next 5 years and who knows where Adobe will be in coming days….
3. Kapil Viren Ahuja 05.09.08 / 3pm

   Mrinal,
   I like the post and your interpretation of the post.

   Anand,
   I appreciate your thoughts, but why do I feel that you do not give credit to other organizations of what good they have been doing. My two cents:

   1. If there were no other players then why would someone strive for growth - Adobe is trying because they have competition
   2. A while back people had written off MS when compared to Java - look today they have .Net which is way more productive that Java

   Lets try not to underestimate anyone, this is just about making lives better for people like us

   P.S: This comment comes up here as I have been having feeling reading your blog a lot - It is good to love something, but why hate the other?

   Regards
   ~Kapil
4. saurabh narula 05.09.08 / 9pm

   internet sites/blogs/email subscriptions are actually main source of information about any kind of developments going around in the tech space and imagine one confused blog post can actually impact the mindset of so many people in one go..n as you said it adds to the confusion..popular bloggers around should be very careful about this…coz when you go around telling people about anything, they would rather go by what they have read somewhere on some blog!!..and then would listen to you..written content carries a great deal!!..of value..so dear bloggers watch out!!!
5. Mrinal Wadhwa 05.10.08 / 6am

   @kapil

   I totally agree that we should not underestimate any of these companies although making an educated analysis is not wrong.

   I’m not sure if you are referring to Anand’s or my blog in your comment but if you are referring to mine then could you please point to the post that you feel is underestimating or expressing hatred for any of the RIA technologies .. i dont think I have written anything like that.
6. Rags to Riches » Blog Archive » Latest Example ReadWriteWeb: A-list bloggers are so confused about RIA technologies 05.10.08 / 10am

   [...] Yesterday I wrote about how several A-list bloggers are confused about various Rich Internet Application technologies and don’t exactly know what each one is. I also shared an example of how Mary Jo Foley’s recent post was wrong in so many ways and how I had noticed a similarly confused post on TechCrunch a while back. [...]
7. ZDNet, TechCrunch, ReadWriteWeb; They’ve got it wrong - Brajeshwar 05.10.08 / 1pm

   [...] all make mistakes”. However, Mrinal’s second tweet (Mrinal’s articles are here and here) got me thinking and wanted to bring forth some clarifications for the Rich Internet [...]
8. Balaji 05.10.08 / 2pm

   Hi Mrinal, this was a nice post. I was always under impression that all I read in ZDnet blogs are true…. but never knew that even they make mistakes.

   It would great if you could review and differentiate between Adobe’s, Microsoft’s and Sun’s RIA solutions and make this easy and clear for your readers atleast.
9. Mrinal Wadhwa 05.10.08 / 7pm

   @Balaji

   Thanks
   I was thinking about that too, although that would be a long descriptive post and I would have to spend some time writing it so we’ll see.
10. Tony Fendall 05.12.08 / 2am

    I have to say that the thing which concerns me most is when I hear respected tech bloggers saying that Photoshop express (built in Flex) is built in Adobe AIR.

    That’s when I shake my head and think, “you guys have missed it…”

    I have also thought that if I had the time, I would like to write a blog post which people could be referred to. It would take time though
11. Mrinal Wadhwa 05.12.08 / 2am

    Tony,

    “you guys have missed it…”

    Exactly !! Adobe did an excellent job of marketing AIR but that somehow that led to people thinking AIR is Adobe’s RIA platform
12. Mrinal Wadhwa 05.12.08 / 3am

    What has been bugging me a little is that Mary has not cared to reply to this issue either on the comment I left on her blog or directly on this post.

    In contrast, Marshall from ReadWriteWeb replied on my post about their mistake and Bernard replied on the comment I had left on his post.

    I might just stop reading Mary’s blog because of this.
13. Java Programming News » Blog Archive » Rich Internet Application Misconceptions - JavaProNews.com 05.12.08 / 7pm

    [...] all make mistakes”. However, Mrinal’s second tweet (Mrinal’s articles are here and here) got me thinking and wanted to bring forth some clarifications for the Rich Internet [...]
14. Thomas Hansen 05.26.08 / 2am

    Incredible…!!
    Comparing an IDE with a Language …
    Sound like they’re playing dice rolling sometimes
    I had a journalist ones saying that the greatest feature of a release of our product was “Refactoring”. What I TOLD him was that we had refactored the core and was very proud of the new version of it
    I guess sometimes these people really don’t have a clue about whatever they are writing about