Certainly deep financial pockets help when it comes to promoting and evangelizing a technology. What Adobe has consistently failed to do is tapping into its user base to get some help with marketing and evangelism. Lots of people are excited about Flex/AIR. Those who can and is willing to talk about it need help from Adobe. I have yet to see any signs from Adobe that they "get it". They are spending lots of $$$$ on various marketing programs like onAIR tour, MAX, etc, which is great. However, they are falling short on many others fronts. If you're curious, try to contact them to find out the requirements for doing a local FlexCamp, you'll know what I mean.
One other thing that Adobe needs to learn is how to guard their most important asset - developers. I have seen Flex User Groups sites cheering about the fact that Microsoft would host their next monthly meeting to talk about Silverlight. I have yet to see a single MS .NET user group to have a meeting dedicated to Flex (believe me I tried really hard to setup a talk on Flex to .NET connectivity). Cheers, Mark --- In [email protected], "Merrill, Jason" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So Microsoft is presenting at Universities, and Adobe isn't. Well, > unfortunately for Adobe, Microsoft has huge financial pockets, which is > the greatest threat to the Flash platform in my opinion. I'm not saying > Adobe can't promote Flash/Flex at universities, but it's certainly true > they don't have anywhere near the amount of resources Microsoft has to > promote products. I think Adobe will have to use some creative > marketing strategies to better compete with the massive Silverlight push > Microsoft is developing. > > > Jason Merrill > Bank of America > GT&O and Risk L&LD Solutions Design & Development > eTools & Multimedia > > Bank of America Flash Platform Developer Community > > > Are you a Bank of America associate interested in innovative learning > ideas and technologies? > Check out our internal GT&O Innovative Learning Blog > <http://sharepoint.bankofamerica.com/sites/ddc/rd/blog/default.aspx> & > subscribe > <http://sharepoint.bankofamerica.com/sites/ddc/rd/blog/_layouts/SubNew.a > spx?List=%7B41BD3FC9%2DBB07%2D4763%2DB3AB%2DA6C7C99C5B8D%7D&Source=http% > 3A%2F%2Fsharepoint%2Ebankofamerica%2Ecom%2Fsites%2Fddc%2Frd%2Fblog%2FLis > ts%2FPosts%2FArchive%2Easpx> . > > > > > > > > ________________________________ > > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of krishna Raj > Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2008 4:18 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Where is adobe? Come to universities! > > > > There is lot of scope for Adobe Technologies in Universities > towards higher education worldwide. > This idea can further their technologies for their(Universities) > course offerings to the great extent. > I wish, it comes true. > krishna Raj > > > > > On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 1:24 PM, Rick Winscot > <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > > At this pace we won't (generally) see RIA technologies > in course offerings for 4 - 5 years at least. It would be awesome to see > higher education quicken their pace and open the door to innovators like > Adobe - but the fact is... that in its current state, higher education, > is ill suited to embrace them. To be frank... I don't blame Adobe for > not wanting to participate in the higher education debacle. > > > > Rick Winscot > > > > > > From: [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> ] On Behalf Of yigit boyar > Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2008 5:52 PM > To: [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > Subject: [flexcoders] Where is adobe? Come to > universities! > > > > Yesterday, Microsoft was in my department to present > silverlight&ajax technologies. > Although silverlight is currently a bullshit compared to > flex, and in my department (METU computer engineering) > many people use linux; there were quite many people > attending to the seminar. > > Tomorrow, I'll do give a seminar about AIR > technology,which will be hosted by METU Computer Club. > who am I? Just a 3rd year computer > engineering(~=science) student. > > So i ask to adobe; microsoft comes to our lessons for > their primitive technology, but adobe does nothing for flex the great? > why? > you do europe tour, it's great but you better do some > more local event (no need to bring your developers, just use > your local partners). > > just a suggestion to adobe guys, maybe because of > feeling bad with microsoft's integration efforts... > > info : METU = middle east technical university / > ankara/ turkey > > > > > > > > > -- > Thanks and Regards, > Krishna > Read my blogs > http://flashactions.wordpress.com > <http://flashactions.wordpress.com> > http://stockthoughts.wordpress.com > <http://stockthoughts.wordpress.com> > Gtalk:krshnaraj > YahooIM:krishna.rajs > Live Messenger: krishna.rajs > Skype: krishna.rajs > Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/krishnarajs > <http://www.linkedin.com/in/krishnarajs> > Cellular Contact: 0091.998.5013.316 > Cellular Contact: 0091.924.8763.069 > Twitter:stockthoughts >
