Macromedia today introduced Flash Communication Server MX, which allows developers to easily add communication and collaboration capabilities into their sites and rich Internet applications. The server integrates support for streaming media, real-time collaboration, and multi-way video, audio, and text messaging. Support at the client end is already built into Flash Player 6. Flash Communication Server MX runs only on Windows and is priced at $499 for the Personal Edition and starts at $4,500 for the Professional Edition.