San Jose (CA) – Adobe today announced a new cloud computing platform code-named “Cocomo”, which promises developers to provide a platform that allows them to add real-time social capabilities to web applications. 

Hearing the name Cocomo may remind some of "a place called Kokomo" made famous by a Beach Boys song. While the Beach Boys referred to a Florida key, Cocomo is Adobe's cloud computing idea.

The company describes Cocomo as a “Platform-as-a-Service” that enable the integration of real-time audio/video and chat into existing applications, or an opportunity to build new applications such as multi-player games or social media applications that run on Flash or Adobe AIR. Adobe said that Cocomo consists of Flex client components, a hosted services infrastructure, and a “simple but powerful development model”. The company also claims that “Cocomo was designed with security in mind.”

Cocomo is already in use in Adobe’s Acrobat 9 software and Adobe Reader® 9 software, as well as Acrobat.com, where the platform provides end users with access to real-time collaboration within and around PDF documents, Adobe said.

The Cocomo public beta is available free of charge (sign-up required).

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Nov 17, 2008 03:59     

sorta like... windows azure?
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That name

Nov 17, 2008 12:12     

After an unfortunate incident involving the Beach karaoke and college roommates, I think I'd have a hard time every using w/out getting violently ill.
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