As Danny Winokur, vice president and general manager, Platform, Adobe says of PhoneGap, "It's a perfect complement to Adobe's broad family of developer solutions, including Adobe AIR, and will allow us to continue to provide content publishers and developers with the best, cutting-edge solutions for creating innovative applications across platforms and devices".
"We are thrilled to work with Microsoft to bring blockchain to the enterprise," said Rick Echevarria, vice president, Software and Services Group and General Manager, Platforms Security Division at Intel, in today's announcement.
As Microsoft's Tim O'Brien, the general manager of platform strategy in the Developer and Platform Evangelism group at Microsoft, notes in his announcement today, the company also plans to "have lots of other stuff to talk about too: Windows Azure, Windows Phone 8, Windows Server 2012, Visual Studio 2012 and much more".
During his long tenure there, he eventually became the company's general manager for platform evangelism, which has always been a high-profile role during the years of his tenure at the company (though nobody seems to be putting Microsoft's current chief evangelist Steven Guggenheimer on the short list to become the next CEO).
However, according to Danny Winokur, vice president and general manager of Platform at Adobe, this is not the end of Flash.
"We worked with HP to enable the Voodoo Envy 133 to be as small as possible without losing key features such as performance and battery life," said Mooly Eden, corporate vice president and general manager, Mobile Platforms Group, Intel.
As Microsoft's general manager for cloud platform marketing Mike Schutz tells me, Service Fabric is essentially a next-gen Platform-as-a-Service technology that makes use of Microsoft's experience with building hyper-scale technology for its own services like AzureDB, DocumentDB and Cortana.
As Mike Schutz, Microsoft's general manager for cloud platform marketing told me, Microsoft is seeing increasing demand from its customers for container technologies.
Microsoft general manager for cloud platform marketing Mike Schutz told me Microsoft wants to make the customer's data centers the edge of its cloud and its customers should be able to think of Azure as the edge of their cloud.
As Microsoft general manager for cloud platform marketing Mike Schutz told me, the company wants to help both IT professionals and developers who are now under more pressure than ever to quickly bring apps from the development phase to testing and deployment.
Controlling who within the enterprise has access to cloud-based applications is key to maintaining the simplicity and security of the SaaS model while ensuring compliance with the relevant mandates," said Jim Ebzery, senior vice president and general manager, Security, Management and Operating Platforms, Novell.
