MDM have released an update to Zinc adding support for Flash 9, Flex 2 and AS3, with the added bonus of Universal Binary support for Intel-based Macs. (Mac OSX support is via a plugin – the application runs on Windows and generates Mac binaries).
I haven’t looked at Zinc in some time, and I’m genuinely impressed with the feature set it now boasts. In particular, the appearance of database connectivity is a real boon: if it can accommodate large databases (for data-driven CD-ROMs) and the SQL support is comprehensive, then I’ll find it hard to justify using Director with the Valentina Xtra again any time soon.