RE: Flex 5

[Mark Fuqua <ma...@availdata.com>]

Dude...I'm with you.  I bought Ilog the same day they announced the pending
sale.  IBM, if you're not a multi-national, sucks.  Ilog went from a very
expensive $800 to a crazy $3200 + deployment costs.

IBM and enterprise in the same sentence....as in IBM ILOG Elixir
Enterprise...gives me the willies.

Mark

-----Original Message-----
From: christofer.dutz@c-ware.de [mailto:christofer.dutz@c-ware.de] 
Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2012 2:09 PM
To: flex-dev@incubator.apache.org
Subject: AW: Flex 5

Well at least with Apache you're not threatened with a law-suite as thanks
for creating a patch to make ILog work with Flex4 ;-) (Was a few years ago).
Was definitely the last time I payed for anything from big old blue ... and
it's certainly allways my reason I give the guys for declining any offers to
work for them ;-)

Sorry ... just has to mention this ;-)

-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: Mark Fuqua [mailto:mark@availdata.com]
Gesendet: Samstag, 17. November 2012 18:58
An: flex-dev@incubator.apache.org
Betreff: Flex 5 

I love Flex.  And I don't see changing anytime soon.  

FWIW, I would be surprised if Adobe and/or others are not hard at work
creating the 'Next Flex' that targets JS HTML5 or multiple targets.  It
would certainly fit with Edge/Muse/Brackets...maybe Adobe Sencha?

I say this gently, as one who has not submitted any code myself:  

In the short run, like the next year or so...Apache Flex 5 maybe, it would
be great to have the following worked on/created:

Squiggley
Additional Spark components
ADG
Ilog like components (especially a Gantt Chart component)

I would gladly support those with money (I don't have much money, but I have
more money than coding/compiler experience).  I wouldn't even mind if the
above came with a price tag (I paid $800  for Ilog components).

As to the future of Flex, post Flash player, it would seem a more fruitful
discussion, if folks like me (who aren't committing code and therefore,
likely to be of little use on the next step...the big re-write), expressed
their opinions gently, and follow the lead of those likely to do the bulk of
the work (or not).

Mark


-----Original Message-----
From: Hordur Thordarson [mailto:hordur@lausn.is]
Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2012 12:23 PM
To: flex-dev@incubator.apache.org
Subject: Re: Flex 5 in haxe

And they may well do just that, I obviously have no control over that.  I am
just taking at face value what they say their current strategy is and adding
to that my reading of the browser/mobile landscape, the future of browser
plugins, etc, and adding all that up my conclusion is that the current Flex
deployment scenario is viable for many more years.

On 17.11.2012, at 16:30, Jeffry Houser wrote:

> On 11/17/2012 11:20 AM, Hordur Thordarson wrote:
>> That to me says that Flash player/AIR aren't going away, quite the
opposite in fact as Flash player/AIR (for mobile) are core components of
Adobe's new gaming strategy for building a business on top of Flash.
> 
> But, many are afraid that Adobe may change their roadmap / goals with 
> very
little warning.
> [Like a few weeks after a big Max Conference]

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