Brio

Courtesy of ER:

Adobe Brio is the next generation of Adobe Acrobat Connect. You can read about it here, at Adobe Labs.

I was reminded of news back in October 07 that Adobe began preparation for two hosted services using Pacifica and CoCoMo. Brio is built on the web services platform codenamed, CoCoMo.

Pacifica is a service that will allow developers to integrate voice, messaging and user presence information into applications built using Adobe Flex, AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime) or Flash technologies. Flex is Adobe's development environment for building RIAs, which are Web-based applications that incorporate multimedia for a rich user experience. AIR, which is currently available in beta-test form, allows developers to take those Web applications and move them to the desktop.

CoCoMo will be the next-generation framework for the Adobe Connect Web conferencing service, which will enable developers to take certain parts of Connect's functionality and integrate them into other applications. Basically, the company is turning Connect into components for its Flex development environment so developers can build and host collaborative applications on Connect, said Adobe's chief software architect, Kevin Lynch, in an interview Tuesday.

“Lynch said services like Pacifica and CoCoMo are part of Adobe's larger strategy for providing the ability to add real-time business collaboration capabilities to RIAs. Companies like Microsoft and IBM already offer collaboration applications for information workers as desktop and server software, but Adobe is approaching the market from a different perspective, he said.”