Actually that's not true, WP/F was announced to chase headlines as you put it at the beginning of last year.
Andrew Scott Senior Coldfusion Developer Aegeon Pty. Ltd. www.aegeon.com.au Phone: +613 8676 4223 Mobile: 0404 998 273 From: cfaussie@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Scott Barnes Sent: Friday, 27 April 2007 3:06 PM To: cfaussie@googlegroups.com Subject: [cfaussie] Re: What's it all mean for CF developers? [Flex now Open Source'd] http://www.codeplex.com/Project/ProjectDirectory.aspx?TagName=WPF We do enough in the OS space we don't always chase headlines for it ;) On 4/27/07, Bjorn Schultheiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hey Scotty, When will microsoft be open sourcing wpf :) On 27/04/2007, at 2:32 PM, Andrew Scott wrote: Scott, I knew it would not be long for you to voice your opinion on your blog. But let's take a step back for a minute, Adobe have done a great job with Flex as Macromedia before them. But one thing that seems to be missing and Scott you touched on it, but I do not think that you fully looked into it. I see the Open Source a great positive approach to reducing their developers, and development time and resources. This isn't very evident, except that the Apollo source went this way for the same reason, in my eyes anyway to give the teams developing the browsers the opportunity to incorporate Apollo support, I see no difference with this approach and Flex support in browsers. And the stupid thing we have a M$ evangelist sitting here, and making a comment about this and a comment about that. But have you once put the respective back on your own Employer at all? Microsoft when they announced WP/F already stated that they would not develop, past their own OS. Now this may have changed in time, but what M$ was actually saying is that although we will not support unix, mac or whatever here is the source code and if anyone wants to develop for those platforms then that would be good. This is no different to Adobe, except they already have that platform independence where M$ do not. And the added bonus, of opening the source up is allowing for more product integration than ever before. There is nothing stopping people from integrating a better support of flex into CF than ever before now, and the beauty is that it will not be Adobe investing in that. It becomes open to others to look at this option, taking the pressure away from Adobe's developers who can go and work on other bigger and better things in the meantime. And of course I could be wrong too.... But Scott, you really need to look in your own backyard first.... Andrew Scott Senior Coldfusion Developer Aegeon Pty. Ltd. www.aegeon.com.au <http://www.aegeon.com.au/> Phone: +613 8676 4223 Mobile: 0404 998 273 Regards, Bjorn Schultheiss Senior Developer Error! Filename not specified. Personalised Communication Power Level 2, 31 Coventry St. South Melbourne 3205, VIC Australia T: +61 3 9674 7400 F: +61 3 9645 9160 W: http://www.qdc.net.au <http://www.qdc.net.au/> ((------------This transmission is confidential and intended solely for the person or organization to whom it is addressed. It may contain privileged and confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, you should not copy, distribute or take any action in reliance on it. If you believe you received this transmission in error, please notify the sender.---------------)) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "cfaussie" group. To post to this group, send email to cfaussie@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cfaussie?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
