A pick of para from Flex Solutions..

 

    I just started to read the book "Flex solutions - Essential Techniques for Flex 2 and Flex 3" as i wantd to quickly browse through and the catchy first para stunned me making me comment on this to the author - Marco Casario (http://casario.blogs.com). Here is the snippet directly from the book.

 

"Since I first opened Flex Builder and learned the basics of Flex, I’ve fallen in love with it: a framework to create Flash applications easily. Thank God. The first version of Flex suffered from Macromedia’s poor market positioning of the technology (at that time, it was Macromedia, not Adobe). Flex 1 required an expensive server module to compile applications. How could I convince my boss to buy a Flex server just to make my life easier for Flash application development?"

     I had been part of the Macromedia and Adobe. I could see how things were when it was macromedia and how things turned on when it became adobe. Flex 2 was infact from Macromedia and not Adobe. The inception of flex had a lot of questions when it began to start on, but after the AS3 plunge and the version 2 seperation it had made its own way clearly. If the version 2 werent from macromedia a hit version, it would have been a life of JRun as adobe is clear on thier investments.