Adobe joins the battle for mobile supremacy

The global software maker Adobe Systems has long held a tight grip over the fancy end of Web site presentation, thanks to the ubiquity of its Flash animation tools. But when it comes to the mobile phones, superiority is yet to be decided.

According to a research from June 2006 Sun Microsystems' Java dominates using Java as their application delivery and deployment platform. But problems in translating Java's write-once, run-anywhere model to the handset give chance for different platforms to emerge.

"The key thing that Adobe realises is that we are at this tipping point now where there is actually more phones in the next 12 months that will be connected to the Internet than PCs," says Mark Szulc, senior systems engineer at Adobe Australia. "So if people want to get content out there, their audience is probably greater on a mobile phone that it is on a Web browser."