I was similiar. I ended up selling a large mining company on the idea back when FLEX was $15k per cpu by simply building a prototype with some gorgeous skins inside. I showed them a smoke and mirror version of what the end result should look like and what not.
The head PM then turns and goes "Great, it looks almost finished, so when can we have this?" - "Oh, its nowhere near started as I used FLEX to build it, but now I have to go back and re-code all these little widges *points to accordion* in JavaScript + HTML, so that should be quite a while". PM: "Well why can't we use this FLEX thing then?" ME: "We can... its just $15k+ is all"... It was sold, and thankfully it was a company where they were happy to spend money like this. It also backfired in a sense as shortly after talk about Zorn started to crop up and how the 2.0 SDK would be free... i wasn't too popular not long after that :( but overall it was an easier sell then talking techo with folks about the comparisons of FLEX vs Other. I think to sell it, you also need to have the conversation without having Technology saturate it :) On 12/26/06, Rogerio Gonzalez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> But as Tariq said, if no one knows about it they do not feel safe adopting it. The only way I've got my Flex app in the > door is because I knew the project manager. He had never heard of Flex. If Flex was mentioned in Java Developers > journal magazines he would know about it. Everyone was expecting me to do AJAX. They thought that was "hot s**t". :P Same here. I already knew the client and the project manager for two years or more. Regards, Rogério Gonzalez
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