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And the irony is that Flex is still the best way of producing RIAs years after Adobe killed it.

Things are changing, though, as the Internet is enabling a number of RIAs to cater to those with lower levels of investment funds.

Thereby rendering it unusable by people who want to create RIAs yet have deep knowledge of information security?

There is a fundamental problem with RIAs; the open web is a much better platform to build applications on.

The portal would be offered to RIAs and plan sponsors as an add on service to their existing 401(k) service.

RIAs would be nuts to use this as it has gone through virtually zero legal/regulatory review.

So many people had played with it in Flash, and were going for jobs developing RIAs.

There are very strict rules (in the US) about how RIAs, brokers, banks, etc can communicate with clients and prospective clients.

That also makes me think this is a potential legal nightmare for RIAs using it.

I don't think the evolution of RIAs will wait for the W3C to get their act together.

Of course, most RIAs don't cater to anything but high-wealth individuals.

But I think both Microsoft and Adobe are in both sides of the battle between RIAs using open standards and proprietary plugins.