Oh a very well known evangelist said something similar to me, we weren't expecting shops of your size to use it? 1.5 was better. But in order to developer relations you have to understand developers and we're slowly seeing this really isn't the case.
A On 15 November 2011 23:42, Matthew Woodward <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > -- Alex Skinner Managing Director Pixl8 Interactive Tel: +448452600726 Email: [email protected] Web: pixl8.co.uk -- official tag/function reference: http://openbd.org/manual/ mailing list - http://groups.google.com/group/openbd?hl=en
