Adobe Systems plans to open-source Flex, its development framework for building Flash and Apollo-based applications. The company on Wednesday is expected to announce the move, which will start when it releases a beta of the next version of Flex, code-named Moxie, in June.
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2006-01-25
...I would actually like to feel good about this as Flex was/is a very nice product, but it is hard considering that they have screwed the pooch on this one for so long giving away the SDK wont save it.
Flex is going on like 5 years old, and has pretty much zero market penetration. Why? Macromedia priced it into oblivion. $20,000 per CPU if your website faced the internet... I would really like to know what idiot came up with that pricing. It killed ANY chance of it ever becoming successful.
In a nutshell they would OWN rich internent development by now if they had just priced it reasonably... Now, 5 years later, we have OpenLaszlo (which is ok) and Microsofts WPF (which is STILL mostly vapor) and NOW they decide to do something like this when it is way too late for it to do any good. Flex was more advanced than either of those products are now 5 years ago but its pricetag guarenteed its failure...
Hopefully Adobe is slightly less retarded than Macromedia going forward... But I doubt it.