Macromedia Hones Flash Development (Review: Macromedia Central)
eWeek does a fairly positive review of Central. The magazine sees Central as a great way to develop stand-alone Flash applications, touting Central's "ability to run data-intensive Flash applications offline and to link data in multiple Central applications in a way that would make most Web services advocates jealous." However, it notes that Central does suffer from some weaknesses of a first time offering, mainly its lack of support for handhelds and its confusing pricing schema.
Macromedia Hones Flash Development (eWeek, December 22, 2003)