Nobody has fired me Mr. Hannibal.
I'm a freelance developer.
I'm just seeing signs of some things that appeared before with MS as
the line between applications and developer tools blurred in the 90's
and had bad results.
I'm not considering the impact of this yet, I'm trying to recognize
some potential warning signs and look into it.
And Fyi, igit, I just got off the phone with them, Robert (also my
name) from Scene7 and he was quite kind.
And may I remind you that I noted below that a reserve full judgement
until I look fully into this.
So, if you please, end it at that.
It's simply something people should be aware of.
I ask you kindly not to turn this into a stupid argument when I'm
stating some very real things I've seen happen in the industry and
time will tell where this is headed.
This has nothing to do with anyone getting fired; it has to do with
future implications.
Leave it at that, j'off (signing off for now :)
-r
On Aug 26, 2008, at 12:53 PM, Doug McCune wrote:
ummm, you're a flex consultant afraid of not having work because of
adobe? are you looking at the same market I am?
The "adobe is cannibalizing it's user base" argument might hold a
little water when it comes to the products they're developing (pshop
express, buzzword, etc). But god knows there's more Flex consulting
work out there than anyone knows what to do with. Try crying wolf once
any semblance of a problem emerges. And has someone really fired you
because they started using scene 7? really?
Doug
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 9:30 AM, Robert Thompson
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Although I'll hold my breath until more and more info. is released
into the
> public.
>
> I'm a little concerned that Adobe is starting to get the "Take
over the
> world" vision with Scene 7.0
>
> They appear to be heading towards a consulting type service (as
well as
> selling to us developers) where people can create FLEX like sites
and
> experiences that were the hope and promise of developers to
capitalize on
> buy spending, in my case, $1,777 on the FLEX 3.0 with ILOG Elixr
components.
>
> I have many projects planned in this area.
>
> But when will come the day when someone says, "Oh, I just purchase
Adobe
> Scene 7.0, we don't need to contract you any longer".
>
> If this turns out to be the case, it will ultimately result in the
same
> Entropy demise of IBM, which was followed by Microsoft, and which
I hope
> Adobe does not plan to fall into.
>
> Why would a developer dedicate years of his life to APIs from
Adobe when,
> ultimately, the way things are turning out, why don't we just get
down to
> the GPU level an 'C' Program NVIDIA CUDO to do the ultimate in 3-4
years
> time, rather than let someone sucker us into purchasing products,
very
> expensive ones, only to turn and compete with us.
>
> Things are not looking pretty and it appears to me that Open
Source, ala,
> Blender instead of Maya, CUDO and Apache SOAP instead of
Coldfusion, and
> DHTML will perhaps some new submissions to the W3C -- perhaps
that's the new
> message us developers need to listen to.
>
> As Henry Rollins says in his great song "Liar", "Please, I'm
sorry, just
> give me anther chance....Ah, ha, ha, ha, ha,
oooooooooooooo.....SUCKER,
> Sucker.....aaaaahhhh, I like it (the money)....I FEEL GOOD".
>
> Do you feel good Adobe? Where do you want to go today?
>
> I'll follow this....if this heads where I think it is, I will put
out the
> message.
>
> -r
>
>
