It's hard for me to believe an IDE would be worth $1000 (oh, excuse, me $999, which is less than $1000 :P )
Most design software, whether it's for web design, as in Dreamweaver, photo manipulation, as in Photoshop, graphics, as in Illustrator, etc., is not even that much...most of it not anywhere near $1000 unless you get everything in a bundle. Perhaps I'm just showing my ignorance about the Flex IDE, but with it priced so high (I don't, at this point, see how it could possibly be worth that much money), it's wide open for a company with hungrier developers to come in and sell something for half that and take a lot of business from Adobe and Flex...what makes it worth $1000? Rick > -----Original Message----- > From: Brad Wood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2006 4:07 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: RE: Flex 2 and Ben Forta > > > Wonder how long it will be before someone just writes their own IDE or > plug > in for Eclipse and offers it for free, much like CFEclipse. Or is there > something legally preventing that from happening? > > > According to Ben Forta, there is nothing legally to keep someone from > doing exactly that. As Ben put it, it would be very difficult to > reproduce the entirety of the functionality they have put in Flex > builder and he thinks enough people will still continue to pay for > Adobe's IDE because of those features for a while. I am very interested > to see what free-ware versions will come about, however. > > ~Brad > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:233823 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
