Yeah, my explanation was pretty simplified. I'm running Ubuntu on one box and would be happy to switch if I had a good Flash/Flex development environment. I think Adobe actually is making some nice strides in that direction. Flash 9 player for Linux, the Flex 2 SDK works on Linux. I think you are right that Flex Builder 2 would be an easier and safer next step for them, as it's not only probably less development required, but probably there is a bigger audience that would immediately use FB2 on Linux than would the Flash IDE.
Darron J. Schall wrote: > Keith Peters wrote: > >> Pretty simple economics actually. Most people use Windows. Fact of life. >> That's where you concentrate your development. How many Linux IDEs would >> Adobe sell right now? Enough to justify the engineering efforts? Maybe >> someday, but not quite yet. >> > I think it's a little trickier than that, sort of like the chicken and > the egg problem. How many people would switch from Windows to Linux if > the software was available? How many people buy the Windows version > only because there is no Linux version? > > Do you need software on the platform first, or developers on the > platform first? I think a better question would be, can Adobe justify > the risk in building software for Linux? There's little risk in > building for Windows because you know you have a developer audience. > But, with Linux, the risk is higher. The developer base doesn't exist > yet because software doesn't exist yet... or is it the other way around? > > Although for a program like FlexBuilder, already built on top of Eclipse > to help ease platform dependencies, my hope is that we'll at least see > FlexBuilder for Linux at some point. I understand the Linux port > wouldn't be trivial, but one can only hope.. that's the main thing > holding me back from switching at the moment (a good Flex 2 IDE). I'd > like to see Adobe test the waters there at least... but I understand the > risk since Linux users typically aren't used to paying for software, > especially IDEs. > > -d > > _______________________________________________ > osflash mailing list > [email protected] > http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org > > > > _______________________________________________ osflash mailing list [email protected] http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org
