On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 18:21:58 -0800, Spike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I teach and develop flex applications. > > I used to teach and develop Spectra applications and I was pretty > highly sought after for it too.
Aye, I remember standing in the rain outside a conference once, waiting for Spike to autograph my left boobie... heheheheheh > Spectra was an unholy nightmare for most developers to get their heads > around to begin with and many of the concepts just didn't fly the same > way the marketing droids would have had you believe. Most people have > simple flex apps up and running within a couple of hours of installing > it. Wasn't Spectra's default setup just that a "demo" and they kind of assumed / wanted you to make your own IDE if you will for it..... i only touched Spectra briefly and i made lots of hello world mini apps out of it hehe. > That's one major difference. > > Another is that Spectra was trying to get into a market already > occupied by big vendors with big budgets to push. Flex is trying to > get into a market where there aren't currently any competitors. > > Spectra was a great tool, but it was extremely difficult to show > people why it was good without investing a huge amount in the sale. > > Flex is a great tool that provides lots of examples and documentation > to show people why it is good. The people who object to Flex purely on > price either aren't building the right kind of apps for Flex, or > haven't had a decent look at the ROI that they're likely to get. *wipes a tear* - you had me at "Flex is a great tool". bravo ol man, bravo. > my 2 cents. keep it, infact here is 8c more (tips is what you yanks call it isn't it?) for a good post. -- Regards, Scott Barnes http://www.mossyblog.com http://www.flexcoder.com (Coming Soon) --- You are currently subscribed to cfaussie as: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aussie Macromedia Developers: http://lists.daemon.com.au/
