RE: [flexcoders] How do you advise clients about "building for the future" - how long before Flex2 is worth their time?

[Karl Johnson]

I definitely agree with your points regarding licensing, but the problem with adoption of flex 2.0 as the platform for consumer apps is the need for the adoption of the new player. I personally would not want to release a production flex 2.0 app to the world, on a public site, until the player has saturated the market (50% + or more). Now if you can somewhat control your target audience (i.e. intranet apps, or niche userbase, etc) then it is not a problem.   But it will be a while before the yahoo's and amazon's would adopt flex 2.   Just my opinion.   Karl From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tracy Spratt Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2006 6:51 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [flexcoders] How do you advise clients about "building for the future" - how long before Flex2 is worth their time? IMHO, only existing clients with large applications will stay with 1.5/as2.  The licence cost of 1.5 prevented all but large enterprise clients from adopting Flex.  2.0 breaks that barrier, and any shop can now build Flex apps of any size for the cost of development.  The third party market for 1.5/AS2 will shrink.  The market for 2.0/AS3 will grow. How fast? Sorry, I can’t really even guess, but fast. Tracy   From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Manuel Saint-Victor Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2006 6:18 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] How do you advise clients about "building for the future" - how long before Flex2 is worth their time?   If a client is seeking a set of custom components and plans to use them for building applications for other clients in the future what would you advise them about building these components in AS2 versus AS3.  Flex components are obviously more convenient for me to build but what is the honest answer if asked "How long will it be before my clients are using these?"  in regards to their own clients and ActionScript 3 components? Mani -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com SPONSORED LINKS Web site design development Computer software development Software design and development Macromedia flex Software development best practice YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS  Visit your group "flexcoders" on the web.    To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]    Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.