Barry
I've recently done some ActionScript application development training for a corporate who sees the AUD$18000 ($12000 is the USD price) for Flex a very good alternative for an existing enterprise solution they're using that's worth about double the price.
Everything is relative...
Andrew
Barry Beattie wrote:
How much is that "ease" worth to you - $12,000 for the licence?
yeah, I also think it's a damn shame but I can't see MM changing it's
pricing strategy. There's been a hell of a lot of negative sentiment
about the $$$ already.
I was keen as but I'm not even bothering to learn it because I can't see enough market share to justify the training hours.
is Macromedia aware of the opportunity to separately sell (at more
reasonable price) the MXML compiler as a new tool?
I'm sure they're very aware. it'd kill proper FLEX sales left and center.
perhaps there will be some *worthwhile* FLEX functionality in blackstone? then it'd really piss all over ASP.NET (to bring it back to the original thread)
just my $0.02 worth barry.b
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From: Chris Velevitch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 4 May 2004 11:37 AM
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Subject: [cfaussie] Re: Cold Fusion vs ASP
On Fri, 30 Apr 2004 10:06:57 -0700, Sean A Corfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Macromedia made it pretty clear from day one that Flex was aimed at enterprise application developer teams (in particular, Java developer
That's a fine strategy for developing business in a new market. But the problem is, Macromedia has reinvented Flash, basically making more attractive for existing developers who currently use Macromedia tools. Macromedia has given us another, easier and similar, way to create swf files. And at this stage of the game, all I want is the MXML compiler to
generate swfs instead of using the Flash IDE.
I appreciate that Flex allows you to dynamically generate swf files, and
I can imagine the impact that'll have on what you can do with an RIA. But
I need to statically generate swf files and MXML makes that whole process easier.
Chris
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