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OpenLaszlo 3.0 Announced

Posted by timothy on from the what-happened-to-sesame? dept.

gse writes "The friendly folks at Laszlo Systems (of which I am one) have just announced the release of OpenLaszlo 3.0. Cool new features in this release: SOLO deployment (compile standalone .swf applications that don't need a proxy server), dynamically loadable libraries, a drawing API, and a bunch of optimizations. Info and downloads are at openlaszlo.org. (OpenLaszlo has been covered before on Slashdot.)"

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  1. I'm stunned by DJayC · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'm stunned that there is not more of a response to this news here on Slashdot. OpenLaszlo is a great product. You can author some really nice applications using their framework, and it's open source to top if off.

    The ability to deploy standalone SWF files is most definitely a direct result of the folks over at Laszlo opening the source. Before, the server side "engine" was, really, their product. You would have to install that in order to serve up a Laszlo application. This is just like Macromedia/Adobe's business model with Flex. When they opened the source, the first thing they wanted to do was be able to publish stand alone SWF files because now the business model no longer centered around their server app.

    So how do they make their money now? Well, they've got a few big time clients using their technology, and who better to apply the technology than those who designed it? Laszlo now hopes to generate cash flow by offering professional laszlo development. This is the type of business plan I would love to see more software vendors follow. I really hope Laszlo thrives as a company.. it would really make a statement. It's a great addition to the open source community in an area that has been littered with closed-source solutions (RIA).

    1. Re:I'm stunned by Scaba · · Score: 3, Funny
      I'm stunned that there is not more of a response to this news here on Slashdot. OpenLaszlo is a great product. You can author some really nice applications using their framework, and it's open source to top if off.

      Response is subdued because the Slashdot community is still reeling over the shocking news that the Wayback Machine web archive archives web pages, even extremely popular ones like Google.

    2. Re:I'm stunned by V.+Mole · · Score: 4, Insightful

      I'm stunned that there is not more of a response to this news here on Slashdot. OpenLaszlo is a great product.

      OpenLaszlo may well be the killer product I'm looking for. I don't know. Why not?

      BECAUSE THE ORIGINAL ARTICLE DOESN'T SAY WHAT THE FUCKING PROGRAM DOES!

      There. Now I feel better.

      I see it might having something to do with Flash, assuming that '.swf' isn't some project specific extension. I dunno.

    3. Re:I'm stunned by gse · · Score: 4, Informative

      Doh. Sorry about that.

      Laszlo is a platform for creating rich internet applications. It competes directly with (and pre-dates) Macromedia Flex. We open-sourced it last fall.

      OpenLaszlo targets the Flash player as its runtime; that decision was made due to Flash's ubiquity. But there's nothing to stop it from being retargeted to Java, .NET, XUL, whatever.

      More info here: http://www.openlaszlo.com/faq/

      (note: I'm a Laszlo employee but these are my personal opinions)

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  2. Re:Interesting, trivia by fok · · Score: 3, Funny

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