I’ve spent a morning looking at Apollo demos and I’m not overly impressed. Their RSS reader application is simply a lift of the Yahoo UI RSS sample.

You’ve so completely missed the boat with your assessment of the RSS reader. It is in fact not a Yahoo UI offering, but rather an example app built originally by Jack Slocum and then improved by the author of the particular sample. A quick check of the resource bundle would have told you that.

“Will Apollo Applications be able to communicate directly with databases?

Apollo 1.0 will not have built in support for communicating directly with databases. However, it will be possible to write Database drivers in ActionScript (leveraging binary or XML sockets), which would allow Apollo applications to communicate directly with a database (both local and remote).

Will Apollo include an embedded database that applications can access?

This is a feature that we are still considering for the 1.0 release.”

Soon developers would request ActionScript implementation of something JDBC - like and embedded database such as Apache Derby or Personal SQL Server.

Then in the eye blink developers would demand everything that necessary to create traditional “desktop application” - multithreading, type-safe collections and maybe even 3D/OpenGL support.
So we’ll get another Java… (or .NET)
ActionScript is very good for script language,yes. But not as good as Java/C# as general programming language.

Anyway, I think that Apollo is a great technology for the NICHE and to be great and successful it should stay in the niche…

http://barrapunto.com/articles.....8203.shtml
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http://www.codeapollo.com

Good luck to all that wish to compete with Apollo.

A defining aspect of Web2.0 is that it puts the users in the middle of the web; rather than on the fringes. From just being a passive consumer of content and services, the web users are now actively contributing to the content. Flickr is a quintessential Web2.0 app where users add content, tag content and share content. Not just by visiting the site, but also by prgramatically integrating flickr into other applications/sites. IN essence bringing the community managed flickr and its content seamlessly into other apps, just as much as is needed.

If web is going to continue evolving, imagine what could be the next step. From passive users we came onto active users. And instead of just accessing websites, we now have APIs that can be used to programmatically manipulate the data on internet sites. Now, how about, if one could invert the view? Instead of using APIs to access data over the web, can we use APIs to expose the data from the user’s desktops onto the web? And do this without losing any of the niceties of the web- like simple access using just browsers, with no user side installation or setup?

To enable such utilization of the web, there is a need for a more evolved web2.0 platform. Beyond what JS may offer. Beyond the glitz offered by the likes of Flash. With a more grounded and tangible utility for serious applications. While still retaining all the power of a simple web based delivery that a simple JS+HTML based UI offers to applications!

This is the space that Apollo and Dekoh are targetting. Albeit very differently. While Apollow is bringing Flash and Flex onto the desktop and enabling access to Windows APIs, Dekoh is bringing Java onto the desktop with rich internet access and sharing.collaboration built into the platforms.

After using a mac for 3 years straight…not having the menus inside the application window is a pure pain in the ass on multiple monitors. Combined with the annoyance of only being able to resize a windows from 1 mother fucking corner sometimes makes me almost want to use my gaming rig to do work on. Sadly, I can’t do shit serious on that windows box since it’s been totally prison raped by rootkits and malware
why the fuck won’t some those linux distros get their act together so the average joe can just jump in and start using it….FUCK!