Adobe Flash Player product manager Emmy Huang announced today it’s now Flash player 9!

The features of this release include the ECMAScript Edition 4-based ActionScript 3.0 language and a new ActionScript Virtual Machine (AVM2), which dramatically exceeds the performance of previous players. Flash Player 9 is expected to ship with the Flex 2.0 launch this summer. We expect to release an ActionScript 3.0 preview release (public alpha) of the next release of the Flash authoring tool, code-named “BLAZE”, on Adobe Labs around the time of the Flash Player 9 launch.

It’s clear the Flash 9 authoring tool alpha 1 will be released also this summer. By the way, in fact Flash player 8.5 when first time it released (alpha-1), it SWF file inside was named as Flash 9 format already.

Macromedia and Adobe are now one. It’s definitely a big news for community of Macromedia. So what happen then? The Macromedia corporate brand immediately retired. Adobe’s six business

• The Creative Solutions Business Unit Adobe Photoshop®, Adobe InDesign®, Macromedia Dreamweaver®, Macromedia Flash®, Adobe Premiere® Pro, and Adobe After Effects®
• The Enterprise and Developer Solutions Business Unit Adobe LiveCycleâ„¢ and the Macromedia Flexâ„¢ . David Mendels (former MM executive VP/GM)
• The Knowledge Worker Solutions Business Unit Adobe Acrobat® and Macromedia Breeze® Tom Hale (former MM SVP/GM)
• The Mobile and Device Solutions Business Unit Macromedia Flash Liteâ„¢ and Macromedia FlashCastâ„¢. Al Ramadan (former MM EVP/GM of mobile and devices)
• The Platform Business Unit Adobe’s PDF and Flash-based technology platforms as standards to any desktop or device. Kevin Lynch (formerMM EVP and chief software architect)
• The Print and Classic Publishing Solutions Business Unit Adobe FrameMaker®, Adobe PageMaker®, Macromedia Contributeâ„¢, and Macromedia Captivateâ„¢.