Now that *really* hurts. After all the hype, expectation and ultimate disapointment that was and is Flex...
Macromedia made it pretty clear from day one that Flex was aimed at enterprise application developer teams (in particular, Java developer teams) that are already building n-tier applications. Those are people who already pay around $6k USD for each seat of their developer tools and who are already working with server licenses costing many tens of thousands.
Look at IBM WebSphere - the basic app server is $10k per CPU, the Enterprise app server is $30k per CPU. Then look at the add-ons: the business adapters for things like PeopleSoft and Oracle Apps are over $100k and most of their MQ adapters are over $55k. WebSphere MQ itself is nearly $6k per CPU (same as Flex). The WebSphere MQ Workflow package is nearly $86k per CPU.
One of the first commercial products I worked on sold for �80,000 (UKP) for a single CPU license (it was an actuarial modeling program that ran on an 80386 with an 80387 co-processor and a single Inmos Transputer). We sold larger licenses for up to 25 Transputers.
Fast forward to the web market and look at application systems like ATG's Dynamo or BroadVision or any number of similar products. BroadVision, for example, rarely cost less than $100k to deploy and often over $1m just in licenses, let alone development costs. Heck, I built a *prototype* web system for a European company that cost them three quarters of a million in licenses and development costs!
Regards, Sean
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