On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 3:09 PM, Alex Skinner <[email protected]> wrote:
> Flex i have had a bad taste since I was one of the companies that adopted > the 1.0 server product and did a massively painful and expensive loss > leading project strange, so frankly I'm glad to see that dead..did someone > say die die die :) > Wow another Flex 1.0 survivor! I talked the company where I was working at the time into the $12K/CPU price tag back in the early days and we did a couple of slick things with it, but wow what a bitter pill to swallow when they changed licensing models. (Looking back they've *never* handled the PR around Flex changes well, so maybe last week shouldn't have come as a surprise.) I heard after the fact that the early high cost was to get customers to fund the development while they decided if it had legs. Nice huh? -- Matthew Woodward [email protected] http://blog.mattwoodward.com identi.ca / Twitter: @mpwoodward Please do not send me proprietary file formats such as Word, PowerPoint, etc. as attachments. http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html -- official tag/function reference: http://openbd.org/manual/ mailing list - http://groups.google.com/group/openbd?hl=en
