Cheers Matt. -Josh
On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 3:26 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 > > > ------------------------------------ > > -- > Flexcoders Mailing List > FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt > Search Archives: > http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.comYahoo! Groups > Links > > > > -- "Therefore, send not to know For whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee." :: Josh 'G-Funk' McDonald :: 0437 221 380 :: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
