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The 360|Flex conference is coming up soon - March 8-10 in San Jose. It seems that John and Tom - the organizers - have everything ready to go except for one little item: getting a sponsor for the USB Thumbdrive that comes in the swag-bag. They offered it to me but it's a little out of my marketing budget for RunPee.com - which is zero dollars. But they are on the hook either way so we worked out a deal. I'll start a pledge drive and try to raise as much money as I can to cover the cost of sponsoring the thumbdrive - $1,300 target. In exchange they will put RunPee.com on it. I'm not on the hook for anything except trying to raise money to cover their costs so that they don't take a loss.

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The public release name for Adobe Apollo has been leaked

April 1st, 2007 . by polyGeek

NOTE: check the date of this post. It’s an April Fools joke. I had no idea this article was so popular until I checked my site stats. My apologizes to anyone I might have misled. Anyhow, I still think it’s pretty funny.

An anonymous source from Adobe has confirmed that they have a final release name for the Apollo project. It’s going to be called Adobe Desktop Presentation Foundation, or Adobe DPF for short.

He said that they wanted to go with a name that was more evocative but since this product competes with Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation they decided to go with a product name that was long and bland.

He also confirmed that a lite version of Apollo will be released for cell phones early next year. It will be called Adobe DPF/e. He said that the ‘e’ doesn’t really stand for anything. It’s just there to confuse people.

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9 Responses to “The public release name for Adobe Apollo has been leaked”


comment number 1 by: aSH

april’s fool

comment number 2 by: William from Lagos

s**t, I actually swallowed that!

comment number 3 by: Scott Barnes

That’s such a catchy name.. damn I wish we thought of it first…

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Scott Barnes
Developer Evangelist
Microsoft – Brand appreciation week.

comment number 4 by: collis

Fantastic! I wish I had written this :-)

comment number 5 by: Simeon

Thats great dan! Excellent Post :)

comment number 6 by: Mark Ashthon

I laughed out loud when I read that. Probably not the final name, much?

Funny thing is, I can’t really blame Microsoft for WPF. They’re selling an operating system and WPF is just a small part of it. Doesn’t make sense for them to give it a fancy name. That said, I seriously doubt they’ll go that route with whatver they end up naming WPF/e.

My predictions for the final name for Apollo?

1. Flash Desktop
2. Splash (catchy, huh?)
3. Browser 2007
4. Irrelevant?


[...] The public release name for Adobe Apollo has been leaked “Apollo” naming leaked by Mike Chambers [...]

comment number 8 by: polyGeek

Methinks that Suketu, who commented above, read this post and the post from Ted Patrick about Mike Chambers releasing the production name for Apollo. But I don’t think he read the comments or noticed the date.

I should be a good blog citizen and tell Suketu that this was an April fools thing . . . but I’m not. :-)

comment number 9 by: polyGeek

@Mark, Good suggestions. I’m really hoping that Microsoft give WPF/e a nickname of ‘Splash’ to further cement their wanna-be status.

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