here are two releases from Adobe that for me help to lay some of my concerns to rest.
However, I still find myself reading the writing on the wall and have started to download Adobe Edge to see what's up with HTML5. I depend on my skills to put food on my table, I need to make sure i don't become obsolete. :-( http://www.mikechambers.com/blog/2011/11/11/clarifications-on-flash-player-for-mobile-browsers-the-flash-platform-and-the-future-of-flash/ http://blogs.adobe.com/flex/2011/11/your-questions-about-flex.html On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 10:05 AM, Christofer Dutz < [email protected]> wrote: > They will certainly not completely kill Flex and Flash. As You > mentioned, there is too much at stake. If I just think of the SAP Flex > Controls, The Oracle Dashboards, I think I have seen a lot in Lotus > Notes that all depend on Flex. Simply killing Flash and Flex with it > would damage Adobes reputation irreperably. I mean ... who would ever > again trust Adobe after something like this. > > I would immagine that they hand over the code to some organization > like Eclipse or the Apache foundation. If this is the case, I think > there will be more benefits of it than there are drawbacks. > > Chris > > > > 2011/11/14 David Coleman <[email protected]>: > > I wonder who will end up as the official maintainer of this technology? > > There is a huge community, and I believe that in the absence of Adobe's > > stubbornness and marketing based feature decisions, we will actually > benefit > > as a community from this. I would like to see Adobe contribute the code > of > > FlashBuilder to the OpenSource market as well... > > > > If Adobe is going to cease development of Flash and Friends, then the > > community must have access to the most recent build of a "stable" > > development platform. There are too many important developers and major > > corporations who are dependent on this technology to have the IDE > discarded > > by the wayside. > > > > On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 6:42 AM, Christofer Dutz > > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> Well acutally I think this is a real chance. > >> > >> Adobe is willing to contribute ALL of the SDK to open-source > >> developmment. I think with this step a lot of issues could be > >> adressed, that simply wouldn't have yet ... just because Adobe was to > >> stubborn ... let's just say ... No more the need to have a FB > >> Professional License Number in order to have Automation working. > >> Access to the code portions that were currently not available. > >> Distribution of the Flex SDKs in a real Mavan Repository ... > >> > >> I read the news and thought "oh my good!", but thinking about it made > >> me come to the conclusion that not all's bad. > >> http://blogs.adobe.com/flex/2011/11/your-questions-about-flex.html > >> > >> Chrs > >> > >> > >> 2011/11/12 Petr Cihelka <[email protected]>: > >> > Well, it is really bad situation and Flex comunity is really unhappy > >> > about > >> > this. We still have the Spoon, but if Flex lose Adobe's flag it will > be > >> > less > >> > attractive for developers, because there will be no strong vision and > >> > lead. > >> > I'm really scared about Flex future, I invested info Flex alot of > time, > >> > defended Flash Player and now this. This was really bad week. > >> > > >> > There is already petition, more info here: > >> > > >> > > http://www.change.org/petitions/adobe-systems-shantanu-narayen-to-step-down-as-ceo?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=share_petition > >> > > >> > Adobe's Transformation by Adobe CEO > >> > > >> > > http://blogs.adobe.com/conversations/2011/11/adobe%E2%80%99s-transformation.html > >> > > >> > Peter > >> > > >> > > >> > 2011/11/12 SimonW <[email protected]> > >> >> > >> >> Bye Bye Flex.... > >> >> > >> >> If I get it right, the Flex SDK 4.6 (Release date is end of November) > >> >> will be the last one from Adobe - see here: > >> >> http://blogs.adobe.com/flex/2011/11/your-questions-about-flex.html > >> >> > >> >> In my eyes it looks as the end of Flex (Adobe does not invest into > >> >> Flex and invest into Flash Player is also down) - see press from this > >> >> week. Focus is on HTML5, so it looks as Flex dies... > >> >> > >> >> Simon > >> >> > >> >> -- > >> >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > >> >> Groups "Flex Mojos" group. > >> >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > >> >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > >> >> [email protected] > >> >> For more options, visit this group at > >> >> http://groups.google.com/group/flex-mojos > >> >> > >> >> http://flexmojos.sonatype.org/ > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > -- > >> > S pozdravem, > >> > CIHELKA Petr > >> > > >> > -- > >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > >> > Groups "Flex Mojos" group. > >> > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > >> > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > >> > [email protected] > >> > For more options, visit this group at > >> > http://groups.google.com/group/flex-mojos > >> > > >> > http://flexmojos.sonatype.org/ > >> > > >> > >> -- > >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > >> Groups "Flex Mojos" group. > >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > >> [email protected] > >> For more options, visit this group at > >> http://groups.google.com/group/flex-mojos > >> > >> http://flexmojos.sonatype.org/ > > > > > > > > -- > > David K. 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