|
Just my opinion but to get it right the
first time and make that positive impact, it’s going to cost you time and
money. Not just in licensing costs but in developer ramp-up time and so forth.
Secondly, you really need a fresh perspective from a design standpoint. Every
single developer I’ve seen start with this technology takes an existing
UI implementation (html, jps, cfml etc) and attempts to convert this in
identical form in flex. While that’s probably a great learning process,
I’m sure there are teams out there that approach their entire first
project in this manner. The results can be less than impressive…Your end
users are looking at the same presentation of data and workflow combined with
some new quirks and minor limitations that can drive folks bonkers if they don’t
see additional benefits. (“Hey! How come I lose everything when I hit
reload on my browser ?!”) What I’m babbling about here is you
need to make real effort in the design phase to leverage the advantages of this
rich platform. You’ve now got an arsenal of tools for building sexy
looking applications that fit your organizations workflow like a glove. You
need to use ‘em. In the end I believe the best chance of success lies
with the level of satisfaction derived by the end users of an application. Constantly look for ways to refine your app towards making
their lives faster, better, cheaper. Task oriented design
rolled up into a smooth sexy package! Is it worth the cost? I’m biased
here but I believe so without a doubt…although you won’t see much cost
savings until you’re on your third project or so… Just my soap box opinion here…it’s
not always an easy path but I assure you it’s quite enjoyable. I had been
so unbelievable bored with web app development over the past few years…and
flex has made things a helluva lot more interesting to say the least. Cheers! Stace From: Hi Stace, I am over here at a university in I would be immensely grateful if you had any thoughts on Flex in
general, whether it is worth the money etc Usability improvements and reduced development costs are always a huge
benefit :) Cheers, Naden On 19/07/2005, at 10:52 PM, Stacy Young wrote:
-Stace From: Agree with you.
But 125K for a system that would be deployed broadly and may be “mission
critical” would seem tiny – probably the same as the janitorial
budget for a day or two. I also agree with your choice of
wording in “seemingly free alternatives…”. J - Rick From: Depends what you're
comparing. If I was a technical beancounter looking at the cost of Flex,
comparing it to open source solutions and then seeing what our application
requirements were; I'd be asking why we were spending ANY thousands of
pounds on proprietary software over seemingly free alternatives.
Especially since... "We were going to
buy something like 8 or 14 additional licenses to the multitude we already
have, and ...I'd be asking why you
need more licenses if you are not using it to it's fullest potential yet? To be fair, we're making
judgements on one piece of a puzzle - maybe Jon could expand on his statement
before we sit here waxing lyrical about his companies policies? T.
YAHOO! GROUPS
LINKS
|
- RE: [flexcoders] Re: If I buy a flex license can I host ot... Stacy Young
- Re: [flexcoders] Re: If I buy a flex license can I ho... Tarik Ahmed
- RE: [flexcoders] Re: If I buy a flex license can I ho... James
- [flexcoders] Re: If I buy a flex license can I host o... ejames8124
- Re: [flexcoders] Re: If I buy a flex license can ... Clint Modien
- [flexcoders] RE: Flex Jusitification (Was: if I b... Scott Barnes
- Re: [flexcoders] RE: Flex Jusitification (Was... Douglas Knudsen
- Re: [flexcoders] RE: Flex Jusitification ... Aldo Bucchi
- RE: [flexcoders] Re: If I buy a flex license can I ho... Matt Chotin
