Now that I have your attention, I can now point you to the fact the Adobe has been putting a heck of a lot of pennies in its piggie bank for startups and developers who want to use the Apollo framework. Man that orta get a few of you grinning.

"Adobe will be creating a $100,000,000 venture fund that will be available to innovative companies using Adobe technology. According to Kevin, the fund will focus specifically on Apollo-based applications" [VIA Ryan Stewart ]

But before you go jumping into M$ word or open office to start you business plans, remember the key here will be Venture Capital funding. Its a smart move by adobe as in the past many Macromedia devs/shops have come up with cool ideas/businesses/products that have done well. This funding allows Adobe to spark alot of interest (which is a major marketing point ATM), gain some key case studies and success stories while guiding certain businesses in the right direction. Awsome!! That outa put the willies into the Micro$oft world, with up coming WPF framework. Best of all Adobes Apollo is cross platform, something which M$ has been hinting at but supplies no evidence of. 

So a bold move on Adobes part, one which I encourage as I can see alot of oportunites for people. I plan to put the videmo client into Apollo and put it forward. But the real point of interest for me at the moment will be the requirements to entering into funding with Adobe. Will they want alot of control? Is it for real businesses or open to developers with ideas? Will I have to use other Adobe products over other technologies to get funding? Will they want the left nut of my uncles brother in exchange for some of that mulla?

Maybe thats why Adobe was trying to pinch pennies on the posters at the MAX event lol. 

P.S I checked and its not April fools day…..so if your playing some prank Ryan….I know where you live!! Muh huh hahahahahahahahahahahaha