FlashPlayer is a runtime virtual machine created by Adobe for running programs in a platform-independent way. That is, any program created for the Flash Player should run the same on any system with the Flash Player installed. Versions of the Flash Player have been created for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Solaris. See the www.wikipedia.org page for more details and visit www.adobe.com for up-to-date information about Flash and the other applications which run on the Flash Player to implement rich Internet applications.