Ted Patrick, a noted Flex Evangelist from Adobe has published a list of top dozen of consulting firms that offer application development using Adobe Flex.

Ted writes, "The list is based on the consulting firms that I have worked with directly and who have delivered multiple successful Flex applications to clients. In every case you will find that the firms know Flex inside out and are some of the best minds in the business of RIA application development."

Farata Systems is one of the firms that made this Flex honor roll. This company is run by experts who put lots of efforts into studying Flex Framework - they've spent time going deep under the Flex skin, learning its source code to make sure they can offer the most efficient solutions to their customers. The fact that Flex is a well designed extensible framework has allowed them to start building their own components and plugins that dramatically improved their team's productivity while working on the enterprise applications with Flex and Java, and this week they are going to offer Beta version of some of these components at myflex.org.

Besides offering consulting services, they blog and publish technical articles, SYS-CON Media has published a book written by Farata experts "Rich Internet Applications with Adobe Flex and Java", and they teach Flex based on their real-world experience of developing enterprise applications.

Congratulation Farata, well deserved!