You have to look through the corporate spin put on that announcement. Adobe is trying to make a bad event sound positive. When they write "yes" they actually mean "no." The abandonment of Spectra was accompanied by a rosy news release and claims of "This is fantastic news!" Spectra quickly died.
Would a software architect choose Flex for a new $1M enterprise development project when Apple, Microsoft, Google, and now Adobe have all come out saying that HTML 5 is the future for RIA development? A big target of Flex is the enterprise market where Web applications cost hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars to build, often with multi-year development timelines and large project teams. I don't think many large companies will be willing to roll the dice on Flex or Flash for future large projects with Adobe making statements like the ones they made in the past week. -Mike On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 4:34 PM, Bryan Stevenson <[email protected]> wrote: > > They say they are assigning some Flex SDK engineers to the open source > team...did we read the same announcement?? > > On Tue, 2011-11-15 at 16:08 -0500, Mike Chabot wrote: > >> Open source is a phrase that can have a few interpretations. In this >> case it means Adobe is not going to devote any more company resources >> into future development. I think the outcome will be the same as what >> happened to Spectra, unless the Flex community convinces Adobe to >> change their mind. I would guess that development of Flex is very >> expensive and Adobe was not selling enough licenses of Flash Builder >> to cover the cost of the Flex SDK software engineers. >> >> -Mike >> >> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:348731 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
