Reading Ryan Stewart's comments about Bruce Chizen's interview in Business 2.0 (http://blog.digitalbackcountry.com/?p=520) I got to thinking:
Adobe doesn't likely care if Flex is supported by developers (ok, they do, but). That's because Flex isn't a product designed for the developer community. It's a product designed for Adobe's own internal development cycle and product creation. Chizen appears totally focused on bringing their desktop products to the web. "I recognize that, our strength is on the desktop, not the Web. I don't know whether it's going to be three years or five years, but we have to get there before Google. And we're starting." They need a rapid application to do that which grants them the deepest, most rich, web based experience possible. They can not use Microsoft languages, Ajax and open-source are a bit to worrisome in their ability to ensure royalty-control/revenue. They're going to use Flex. Flex is the standardized platform they're going to (likely, they already are doing in those "I can not talk about the cool team I've been promoted to/I can not talk about why I came back" development groups) to migrate Photoshop et. all to the web based service platform. Cool eh? Good news for developers who like Flex - Adobe will be rolling out some sweet sweet functionality around it. For eager developers looking to score work with the Adobe mothership - build Flex tools and Apps that support their desktop products migrating to the web. Lookie Lookie who's got Flex bookie! (OK - that rhyme sucked). :-) But yeah - embraced by the development community or not, Flex is going to stay. It's going main stream hard core. And it's going to provide the community with powerful tools because it's going to be used to migrate desktop apps to the web. Stephen Cassady Cassady AT Lopedia Dot Com http://www.Lopedia.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:254011 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
