On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 11:50 AM, GeorgeB wrote: > 2. > A better distinction between the free and commercial offerings. All >> commercial IDE offerings are branded Flash something, all the free >> open source stuff is branded Flex something. > > In case you didn't notice, FlexBuilder3 is not a FOSS "someting".
The rebranding will only be complete when Flash Builder 4 and Flash Catalyst are released. > 4. > BlazeDS is the free, unsupported, open-source offering for fast >> communication with Java backends. It will continue to be so for the >> foreseeable future. Adobe will continue to develop it. Adobe will not >> support it nor market it because it is not a source of revenue. LCDS >> will be supported and marketed because it is a source of revenue. > > I remember Flex DataServices. Then after Macromedia acquisition by Adobe in > 2005, this was put under the LCES umbrella of the commercial range of > products. LiveCycle products of course carry price tags of tens of thousands > of dollars... > If I recall some recent posts correctly, the new version 3 of LCDS will have > a pric tag of $30000 per CPU.. Yes, it is almost like it was back in the days of Flex 1.0 which was $25K per CPU (initially $50K). Only then Flex was a runtime product that you needed to have on your server just to be able to compile Flex, while you now need LCDS only when you want to do very high end data communication and you can do Flex with less advanced data communication for free, Jochem -- Jochem van Dieten http://jochem.vandieten.net/
