You got promoted! Adobe does compete not only through products but through their consulting services as well. The fact of the matter however is that even Adobe consulting helps all of us, directly and indirectly through the competition and subbing various people on this list, developing frameworks (which you might or not use). Competition is good. free hand, free market. Even MS is good for all of us, of course they make us look good by building silverlight, so by proxy :)
In the words of PJ O'Rouke "Never fight an inanimate object." On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 7:26 PM, 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 > > > -- j:pn \\no comment
