Flash, or Adobe Flash is a set of multimedia software that was first released in 1996. Flash is used to create animation and interactive websites and pages. Flash can also be used to add video to websites.

Most of the details of Adobe's massive upgrade to all of it's CS3 (Creative Suite 3 for those who aren't familiar with Adobe's product naming conventions) line of graphic and interactive content creation software have been out there for a week or two. Adobe already annouced an officiall rollout date of March 27th for the suite, but no shipping date or pricing information was available until now.

In case you're like me and don't generally follow up on the latest news, Adobe will be acquiring Macromedia in Fall 2005, which poses very exciting changes in terms of integrated software solutions and the collaboration of formats such as pdf and flash. Particularly for designers and developers, this will hopefully solve issues of incompatibility between software and file formats of the two sets. No word yet on when such new solutions are to be released.