Hello Again! I found the post that I talked about:
http://www.mossyblog.com/archives/520.cfm Regards! Rogério Gonzalez "FLEX 2 needs to be the purple cow, the anomaly in the herd that stands out and people go 'holy shit, did you see that cow back there' and then 2 dinner parties later the conversation flows." - Scott Barnes (www.mossyblog.com) --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "Rogerio Gonzalez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello everyone... > > I think this is an extreme complicate issue. > Flex is based on Flash Player. At least in Brazil, softwares made in Flash > is "the coolest but not functional", "funny intros" or "games in flash" and > such. Is very difficult find some real developer for Flash who really knows > AS. And those, charge a fortune. > > Based on that, and the plus that Adobe is "the photoshop company", make a > little difficult that clients believe on Flex. > I read on a blog (sorry, don´t remember where) that the better way of sell > an application on Flex, is not mention a word about flash player, flex, > macromedia or adobe. You tell the client what amazing things he will have > with this new technology and, after he go nuts, then you tell him that the > Big Adobe is who sign the tools. > > Then you have other issue. Here, at least, the project managers have the > tendency to new technologies. But not new as meaning "the best"... new as > meaning "microsoft´s the best". I never agree with this vision, but one > project manager told me something interesting: "when you buy a new car, you > want the 'top most' from that well know company... you don´t want something > old, or refurbished." > > I think that Adobe is on the right path. Gaining territory from below. > Making those project managers accept Flex before final clients. Making those > project managers indicate Flex for the applications. > Then, when clients begin to think in Flex before ask for an study, we will > have those 1.000.000 developers on stand buy :) > > Today, at least here in Brazil, we don´t have much developers, so there is > no logic start selling projects without competent developers or we will only > mark adobe´s flex as a bad product for the clients (this happen with dotNet > and Java here in Brazil). > > > Regards, > > Rogério Gonzalez -- 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/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> 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/
