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Cleary RIA is an important strategy for Adobe Software, and who better to lead the charge then Kevin Lynch, newly-appointed Adobe CTO?

If Microsoft acquires Yahoo!, will it end the Yahoo’s openness to Flash and Flex developers? (Since Microsoft has been trying to get it’s Flash competitor Expression off the ground, it might not want to continue sharing.)

In this month’s Adobe Edge Newsletter, Mark Anders and Steven Heinz discuss and demonstrate the new Adobe product codenamed “Thermo.” If you’re a designer with doubt about how you fit into RIA/Flex application development, you need to watch this video.

It took me forever to use this, and I don’t know how I lived without it! Check out some Open Source Flash Remoting solutions for PHP (AMF PHP’s new URL), Java, .NET.

If you don’t think enterprises understand Flex, check out the new Yahoo! Messenger for the Web. This beta uses a combination of Flex and PHP to render the messenger as an RIA.