I was just thinking the other day that we do not hear much about Central any more and what do you know PC Magazine go and publish a nice article all about Central. Here are a few tasters: -

Selling software today is not easy, especially if you”re a small developer with limited resources. But the new Macromedia Central, based on Flash, aims to simplify the way developers distribute applications and customers acquire them.

Most significantly for developers, this is still Flash, and you can use all types of rich multimedia content.images, movies, or sound.within your Central applications. Better yet, this content can now be cached and consumed off-line.

Here is the full article.