Hi,

I work for a large retail organisation.

I would like to create various flash applications using flash/action script.

At this stage I little or no knowledge of flash or it components.

Does anything need to be added my Company's network in order for these applications to be viewed by the end users? i.e. adobe flash server?

Thanks in Advance.

Ronnie

It all depends really. YouTube and Google are good examples of where Flash Server accels since one of the features of Flash Server is the support of Streaming Video. The Flash Server product sheet can be found here: http://www.adobe.com/products/flashmediaserver/

But really what you need to ask yourself is: are you going to be delivering alot of streaming media, video bloging, need support for direct AV ins, etc. If you don't then you could get away with just purchashing Flash and developing your movies and deploying them to the web. (Even without flash server you could still play movies through a flash interface, flash server is just more optimized to handle that task)

The only thing you will need on your network would be that all internet browsers have the flash plugin.

hth.

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I don't intend to use a large amount of video streaming.

It would just be flash training packages with some motion.

I may occasional want to display a video messages to certain users.

Does this sound like I just need to provide all users with the Flash Plugin and not install the flash server?

Thanks again for your help.

No I think that you would be ok with simply create Flash movies and then deploying them to your Intranet. If this is something that you may turn forward facing and expect high traffic it may be something you want to consider down the road but based upon what you have said here, you should be ok without the server.

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