> > But I don't think open source is likely in the foreseeable future. > > RunRev Ltd. and their backers have a lot invested in Rev, > and any path > > to the future would need to provide a healthy return on > that investment. > > > Why would you say Adobe are open sourcing Flex? because they > don't see the product going anywhere and they are cutting > their losses? Because they are big enough and can loose on > this one? Or because they figure they can only really make > money off a development tool and platform (in the future) if > it has serious open source credentials and they are > reorganising their business bit by bit around ways of seeling > tools and services around such a strategy?
Adobe "owns" all of the best selling commercial tools for producing/supporting content for the Flex platform. Flash and to a lesser extent, AJAX type solutions have achieved dominance in their own space - its become its own ecosystem in web development. By open sourcing Flex, they still maintain dominance because so many people will use their tools to generate Flex related stuff. Yet they also appeal to open source/free software communities and can leverage any work generated there as a result - that looks good to shareholders, too. Something that works for one company (or even a group of companies) doesn't necessarily mean the strategy is sound for everyone else - those strategies are built with the structure of those companies in mind. I have had clients and partners of clients that have emulated Apple or Microsoft for example - and at best its helped not at all, at other times disasterous. Best regards, Lynn Fredricks Worldwide Business Operations Runtime Revolution Ltd http://www.runrev.com _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
