We’ve got an ally in the enterprise reseller marketplace who sent us this video link with a simple note. This fellow, who talks with IT directors and enterprise managers about their future tech needs simply said after seeing the iPad in action, “Now I get it.”

There’s an important note to file away here about this demonstration of the new journalism. Wired will operate its iPad app on Adobe AIR, technology that is supported on the iPad. In fact, even the dreaded Flash applications can run on the new Apple device, according to a report from Gigaom’s James Kendrick.

It turns out Flash runs fine, as long as it’s in the form of a native iPhone/iPad app. Adobe has tools to make that easy for developers to do, and told me that more than 40 Flash-based apps have been submitted to the iTunes App Store. Now comes word that the cool Wired iPad app was developed with Adobe AIR, which, Apple’s feelings aside, makes apparent just how much can be done with Flash on Apple’s domain.

This quantum leap in information gathering will be slow to arrive. You might save your iPad budget for next year, because the launch of this new tool is going to mirror the intro schedule for the iPhone, if you expect apps written especially for the new device. Wired expects to release its iPad app this summer, at least 90 days after the iPad goes on sale. What’s more, Wired wants to charge for its information by subscription, something the iPad enables more easily than the Web. Set aside some budget for information subscriptions. The advertiser model, where you paid nothing, will be losing some ground to the value of interactive content.

AIR is serving Macs already for the companies who need to follow Twitter traffic and post to multiple feeds at once. Adobe’s Tweetdeck program runs on AIR, and is worth trying out to get a handle on a complex Tweeting task. Getting AIR apps under an iPad could trigger a great launch for information collection and sharing.