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June 17, 2002
*Macromedia Flash Sings the Opera*
By Ryan Naraine
Macromedia (NASDAQ:MACR) on Monday announced a deal to 
make its Flash Player software available to licensees of Opera 
Software's embedded Web browsers. 

Opera, an open-source browser doing battle with Microsoft's 
Internet Explorer and AOL's (NYSE:AOL) Netscape, said it 
would make the Flash Player software available to consumer 
electronics manufacturers and software platform providers 
on a range of devices. 

The deal allows licensees of Opera's Embedded Browser to 
support Macromedia's Flash Player with their devices and 
platforms and would eventually put multimedia applications, 
content and services on a range of web-enabled devices like 
wireless PDAs and set-top boxes. 

The licensing deal puts the Flash Player Opera embedded 
editions for Linux and QNX operating systems, the companies 
said. 

While financial terms were not released, it appears to be an 
extension of previous deal for Opera to license the Flash 
Player technology in the Windows, Linux and Macintosh 
versions of the Opera browser. 

Companies using Opera's technology within their products now 
gets to use the new Macromedia Flash MX development 
environment to deploy content on Web-enabled devices. 

Opera Software makes money from developing Web browsers 
for the desktops and devices. The company has partnered with 
the likes of IBM (NYSE:IBM), AMD, Symbian, Canal+ 
Technologies, Ericsson, Sharp and Lineo. Opera is available on 
Windows, Mac, Linux/Solaris, Symbian OS, and QNX. 
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