First of all, this is very relevant to the FLEX coders development
community.
I have just talked some another person at Scene7.com and the
indication I seemed to have gotten is that there will be a resulting
complication in the area of eCommerce and Product Catalog Development
to the FLEX community.
They are still working on it. But it all comes down to this.
The Webinar should be attended by every FLEX developer out there.
They should ask important questions such as: Will Adobe be servicing
clients in Scene7.com using FLEX 3.0 technology, and could the
possibility arise that an Adobe representative from Scene7.com bid
directly against a Freelance, or Small Business Owner, who has spent a
lot of development money on their products.
For those out there who distaste my look into Scene7.com and it's
effects on the FLEX and Flash CS3 community (a few mongrels) I'd ask
that you please leave me alone and just let the others listen.
- None of us would be here today w/o the timely innovation of
FutureWave's FutureSplash control
- It was extremely fast in installation and provided dramatic vector
results at a time when ActiveX had serious security problems
- None of us would be here today if it was not for Macromedia's timely
acquisition of FutureWave's FutureSplash control, renamed FlashPlayer
- Macromedia always kept their honor when it came to developers who
spent their hard earned money on development tools
- Macromedia always recognized the marketing power of tens of
thousands of strands of "reaching out" of the Flash brand via
developers (not even any money was spent on this; money was in fact
earned; Macromedia recognized and respected this).
- Adobe has now acquired Macromedia, and I have been excited about
Adobe for a long time since then. And for the gentlemen that said I
never add anything to this group, it was me who was shouting "Watch
out for SilverLight it's Microsoft's 2nd attempt at killing Flash
Player - Please Adobe get an OpenGL solution in the works so DirectX
does not out-power flash"
- However it happened we now have the GREAT Papervision3D.org, who
just did it.
- But now Scene7.com comes along. And it has far reaching
implications to the FLEX and Flash development community who have
spent a heck of a lot of money for development tools.
- It is Adobe's right (to an extent) to use the free market place and
bid or compete against Small Business owners, or other innovators more
interested in contracts than the internal Corporate IT system.
- However, it is also our right to ask serious questions about our
future ability to bid in large contracts
- And it is also right, to cut our losses and move towards more stable
areas of development, and not naively market for a company that may
potentially in the long run be competing against it's own developers
(don't fool yourself into thinking it's not possible; I guess we'll
all find out on Sept. 11th, Thursday, in the Webinar if the right
questions are asked).
I myself and taking a serious look at more SourceForge efforts,
companies that may have a core mission not to "leverage" the developer
community in order to eventually use that momentum built up over many
years, for it's own profit (whatever company that may be).
I do know one thing, There's a few CEO's out there who respect
developers; but they are few and far between. Gates is a BASIC
programmer telling Jobs to learn how to program, while Jobs is
programming at the Mach OS level (hypocrisy).
FutureWave and Macromedia were Very Honorable and I really am starting
to wish Macromedia remained intact.
The upcoming Webinar is far less about the new PDF SDK, and more about
a simple catalog that is a pre-cursor to a eCommerce Platform.
Perhaps it's time to start hosting with MacPro servers and looking
more into QuickTime, if the worst is found to be true.
We will all find out. Please don't ruin your future by trusting a
large Corporation. I've read things in confidence that few have, and
it's very disturbing.
-r
