<3 Matt On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 10:32 AM, Doug McCune <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thanks Dad :) > > > On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 10:26 AM, Matt Chotin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hey guys, >> >> I guess this is what I get for going on vacation last week huh? >> >> Clearly most of you guys saw the threads last week (and even today >> frankly) >> that I think went well over the line of what should be considered >> acceptable >> list behavior. I'd like to remind everyone that the words you post here >> are >> basically going to live on forever in search engines, mail archives, etc. >> Try not to write things that are going to embarrass you in the future. And >> while in general I don't have a problem with foul language (one need only >> hang out with me briefly) I think this forum is not the place for it, and >> ask that if you take the time to type it out, you take the time to take a >> deep breath and use those backspace and delete keys. OK, play nice, issue >> closed. >> >> Robert was saying that there's a Scene 7 webinar and it will talk about >> Flex >> and developers may want to pay attention. I think most of you should go >> and >> attend but that's because I think that Scene 7 offers interesting >> opportunities for various ecommerce solutions. I do not see Scene 7 >> competing with most of what you guys do (at least as far as I know). If >> however you have a system that you sell to large ecommerce sites that does >> high-end image manipulation including color changes and various >> transforms, >> I think you may be a competitor. Other than that, I don't believe Scene 7 >> competes with what most Flex developers do. >> >> Doesn't mean Adobe doesn't end up competing with customers. I always feel >> a >> total tinge of guilt when I see a really cool product out there and know >> that Adobe will compete in that area too. Adobe is a public company that >> needs to grow, that means that we will not be contracting our areas of >> focus, we will be expanding. We obviously have a huge stake in image >> software, it is reasonable to assume that we will be going into the web >> version of that pretty heavily (most folks would agree we'd be pretty >> stupid >> not to). If you look at where Acrobat is successful (and as much as folks >> hate Reader for being slow, it's really really successful) it is in >> business >> productivity. You can imagine we'll be continuing along those lines (see >> acrobat.com). So that's two examples, I'm sure there are others. >> >> Last question was on Flexstore license and whether you can use it as the >> basis for commercial software or whatever. Answer: yes. You can use >> Flexstore to do whatever you want. I think all the samples we post on dev >> center where source is available, you can treat that as being open to >> doing >> whatever you want where it says "see accompanying license". >> >> Hope this helps, >> >> Matt >> Adobe >> Flex Product Manager >> >> > >
