David Wadhwani is the vice president of product development for Macromedia Flex. Prior to joining Macromedia in 2002 he was the founder and vice president of product development at iHarvest Corporation, where he led the development and deployment of a web-based knowledge management and collaboration system before selling it to Interwoven, Inc. He also spent approximately four years at Oracle in the early 1990s where he was part of the core team that conceived, designed, and implemented Oracle's first business analytics software package.
Macromedia, led by Kevin Lynch (pictured) as chief software
architect, coined the phrase "Rich Internet Application" (RIA) a few years
ago after seeing what developers and designers were building in Macromedia
Flash.
It was clear that these applications extended the design limitations and
interaction constraints of traditional HTML applications. They didn't require
a full-page refresh when users interacted with them. They efficiently
utilized network bandwidth, transmitting only the portion of the data that
changed and transmitting layout information sparingly. They contained a rich
array of interactions that allowed end users to directly manipulate the data
with which they were interacting. They seamlessly layered audio and video
into the application's user interface. They clearly maintained their context
as the user navigated through the application. And, of cours... (more)
David Wadhwani is the vice president of product development for Macromedia Flex. Prior to joining Macromedia in 2002 he was the founder and vice president of product development at iHarvest Corporation, where he led the development and deployment of a web-based knowledge management and collaboration system before selling it to Interwoven, Inc. He also spent approximately four years at Oracle in the early 1990s where he was part of the core team that conceived, designed, and implemented Oracle's first business analytics software package.
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