Adobe AIR vs TIBCO General Interface comparison

The Adobe AIR runtime enables developers to package the same code into native apps for Windows and Mac OS desktops as well as iPhone, iPad, Kindle Fire, Nook Tablet, and other Android™ devices, reaching the mobile app stores for over 500 million devices. 

TIBCO General Interface consists of two components: General Interface Builder and General Interface Framework. TIBCO General Interface Builder is a browser-based, visual development environment used to develop AJAX applications. AJAX (asynchronous communications, JavaScript, and XML) applications are run in a standard browser, but look and feel like a desktop-run application. General Interface Builder includes a Components Libraries Palette that contains many standard components used to add functionality to your application, such as menus, taskbars, text boxes, etc. TIBCO General Interface Framework is a distributable runtime framework for running browser-based applications developed with General Interface Builder. Note that this framework is deployed as part of Workspace - it does not need to be deployed to client machines to run a WCC application. The only software need to run the application locally is a browser.