Re: [flexcoders] Re: If I buy a flex license can I host other peoples apps on the license?

[Tarik Ahmed]

At Flex's old price making the case was do-able. Where I'm at now... One of our sub-companies wanted us to build a new intranet for them based on the apps we've built; and they were looking at about 16 CPUs in Web Servers and once they saw the price... They decided they'll skip on the Flex aspect of it. We're also a multi-billion dollar a year company. But they got that way because they're very careful about how they spend their cash. If there's a technology that gives them 50% less functionality, but costs 90% less...they'll opt for that instead. Yesterday I was presenting a proof of concept I made in Flex to a VP who reports to the CTO - and one of the first things he started asking about is was that made in Laszlo, and why I didn't make it in Laszlo. Fortunately the easy answer was... we already have a Flex license, so obviously we'll use it. But...definitely a very challenging sell at $15K/cpu. Rick Bullotta wrote: Your multibillion dollar company is hedging on $120K-$225K???  And don’t you have a purchasing organization that can negotiate a volume price? I find that hard to believe… From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Jonathan Bezuidenhout Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2005 10:05 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Re: If I buy a flex license can I host other peoples apps on the license?   On a slightly different note. I can tell you that in our multibillion dollar organization Flex is most likely about to be thrown out.  We were going to buy something like 8 or 14 additional licenses to the multitude we already have, and the pricing is just totally ridiculous for what we need it for. Management is ready to cut their losses and redevelop with something non-proprietary and we (the ones that really wanted Flex) have egg on our faces. I think we have come to the point where MM has priced Flex totally out of the market. Jonathan -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS  Visit your group "flexcoders" on the web.    To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]    Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.