Re: [flexcoders] Flex Marketing

[Matias Nicolas Sommi]

I think that this message must be marked as off-topic but I'd agree too, but shhhh! let's to get an approach from that! ;)Obviously, it's a joke!I think that flex take a place itself with no much time. But, I don't agree with the excessive price for developer license, at least for me, because in Argentina is too difficult to spend 700 u$s (more than three argentinian "pesos" is equals to one dolar).
Maybe the price can be adapted to the people life quality?Well, is my opinion.2006/10/4, Tariq Ahmed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:













  


    
            



I'd agree to that. The marketing effort seems to heavily rely on the
development community doing that job for them. Things like labs and
DevNet are KEY to maximizing technology adoption - but people need to
know about it in the first place.

To Restate Adobe's Goal: 1 000 000 Flex Developers by 2010. 

Some HEAVY DUTY marketing is needed. It definitely made sense to
capture those who are most amiable to Flex (CF and Flash developers)
first and grow from there. I think someone blogged about this before;
in that of course Adobe related blogs are going to be heavy proponents
for Adobe technologies. But now it's time to penetrate into the rest of
the world.

In polling my heavy duty tech friends in other industries, they BARELY
know what Flex is. Many haven't heard of it. And some have heard of it,
just because they heard me mention it.

Awareness of the brand and technology needs to be more prevalent.

Gimme a cool Flex decal and I'll put it on my car! :)



Clint Modien wrote:


  
  I mentioned this @ the Silicon Valley Flex User Group meeting the
other day but I wanted to reiterate it here and see if I could invoke
a response from Adobe.
  
Mr. Mendels?
  
Where is the marketing for Flex? Why keep the most beautiful
framework in the world for creating applications a secret? Where are
the Visual Studio style banner adds everywhere. Where is the buzz for
it on Slashdot. Why arn't other developers in the world standing up
and saying is creating applications really this easy!?!
  
I've seen the lights go on in a developers eyes when they get it.
When they see what 5 lines of code can acomplish with Flex. They get
excited. Excitement sells licenses.
  
(Gets off his soapbox and points to it...) ... Thoughts?
  
  








      

    
    












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