I just answered my own question about Flex pricing...$12,000...yikes!
That much just for developing RIA's?????
And I'm already complaining about $1200 for Flash and CF MX!
Rick
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stacy Young [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Sunday, November 14, 2004 10:02 PM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: RE: Blackstone to provide built-in "Flash Remoting" type
> capabilities?
>
>
> Unless you have flash skills to leverage already I'd suggest
> holding off
> until other technologies start becoming more accessible. (flex or
> otherwise)
>
> I started off in the flash RIA world a couple years back and
> have since
> moved to xml based rich client development. Night and day, 100x more
> productive and intuitive. Perhaps my opinion would be different if I
> were already a flash wizard...
>
> Cheers,
> Stace
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rick Faircloth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Sunday, November 14, 2004 1:38 PM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: RE: Blackstone to provide built-in "Flash Remoting" type
> capabilities?
>
> Hi, Graham...
>
> I was just curious to see what people are actually putting to work
> in "real world" situations, not just the MM demos...I've
> seen only a few
> working Flash RIA apps so far (all those coming from MM's gallery)
> and was wondering if people had deployed the design / programming
> approach in any apps that I could see working.
>
> I'm not at the point where I'm looking for coding samples, but still
> trying to decide if the time is right to even deploy the
> technology at
> all.
> To get into this app development paradigm, I would have to spend at
> least
> enough to get to CF MX and Flash MX Professional 2004...$600
> for Flash
> and $600 on an upgrade to CF MX (both go up $100 Nov 15) so the
> financial investment would be $1400 after Nov 15th, plus time spent
> in training and education. Especially with a new CF version on the
> horizon, I wonder if how would be the time to move, anyway...things
> like Flash Remoting may change dramatically, at I was hoping,
> with Blackstone...so that's what my thinking is at this point.
>
> $1400 plus training and education may not be much to those
> on the list
> with a salary and corporate budgets, but it's a lot for a sole
> proprietor,
> where the funds come directly out of my checking account and time
> for producing website and apps that put money back into the bank.
>
> Do you have some apps / sites working that I would view online?
>
> Thanks for your input...
>
> Rick
>
>
>
>
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