I'm a enterprise developer who is starting a company focused on RIA development. Flex is my tool of choice. For the past five months, I've been learning the platform, best practices (love you i::2!), prototyping and promoting applications for my target industry, trying to gain mindshare for this wonderful product we call Flex. I'm not yet developing anything for profit or deployment.
My dilema is that I don't yet have the capital to buy the very costly licence for Flex so that I can continue to explore and prototype. That will come soon. Until then, my trial copy of Flex Builder v1.5 expires regularly and I am left scrambling to get it going again. Although the Flex 2 alpha is available and I eagerly await it's full Enterprise glory many months from now, all of my prototypes have been developed in v1.5 and some of them use the YahooMaps Flex component which requires v1.5 as far as I know. I believe I've tried all options to continue to use Flex Builder 1.5. I've requested a free copy for single/non-profit developers...denied. I've wiped down my hard drive and reinstalled Flex Builder...doesn't work (but the Flex server is quite happy to give me another 60 days). It's been quite painful begging my Macromedia rep for Flex Builder licence extensions over the past few months. My Flex Builder trial is up once again. My Macromedia rep won't even respond to my email requests this time round and it's been 10 days and a few follow-ups since I've asked. Making things worse, I'm going to present some of my prototypes next week and don't really want to resort to a text editor to modify my projects. Are other "licence-less" developers here experiencing this frustration? Is there a less painful way to deal with the expiration/renewal process until my company needs to commercially develop and deploy a product? Looking forward to your feedback. Tom Sobut RIA LABS London, Ontario ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get Bzzzy! (real tools to help you find a job). Welcome to the Sweet Life. http://us.click.yahoo.com/KIlPFB/vlQLAA/TtwFAA/nhFolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
