Adobe Really Likes Google

The search giant Google developed a lot of solutions that are continuously attracting both individual users and companies because they are offering powerful and well-developed features. In the past, it was reported that Microsoft is advertising on Google Search's engine result page using a service provided by the company, AdWords that enables you to advertise your products directly on the Google Index. Even if the company was criticized several times for using its services for personal advertising, it seems like the search giant is attracting other powerful companies to use its solutions.

As you may know, Google Code is one of the services provided by Google that allow users and other software developers to test codes and new ideas before they are included in the final products. At this time, the search giant also owns several downloadable tools that are helping Google Code to impose its powerful features, enabling all its users to design powerful solutions.

One of the most important users of Google Code is reported to be Adobe Labs, the well-known developer of multiple applications such as Reader, a company that is currently using the search giant's service to test new functions meant to be included in Flash and Flex programs.

"We recently moved these libraries from our own Adobe Labs site to Google Code, and have been very happy with the results thus far. The projects were always intended to be community run projects, but our initial deployment site did not have the infrastructure in place to handle hosting an open source project with multiple developers. As the libraries became more and more popular, and as we continued to get requests from developers to improve and contribute code, we decided that we needed to move to a system that would better allow the developer community to contribute to the projects," Adobe said.

The company also sustained that Google Code is one of the most powerful services in its category because it is based on a large community that is continuously helping developers improve their solutions, offering ideas and suggestions to all members.

"We looked at a number of code repositories, but decided on Google Code because it had all of the features that we wanted (Subversion, Issue Tracking, Downloads, Wiki and Groups), and integrated them in a way we felt was intuitive and straightforward. We did run into some initial problems moving the code from our Subversion repository to Google Code, but with some help from Google, were able to make the transition.

We have already seen more participation from the developer community, and have added new features and fixed some bugs. We expect that the projects will continue to grow as more developers start working with ActionScript, Flash and Flex," Mike Potter, Adobe Labs, said on the Google blog.