> Well, you don't have to buy anything from Adobe to produce > and deploy Flex based apps, since the SDK is free of > charge... but i think Adobe plans to make some money off that > product ;)
I think the value proposition there is quite different. There is no required server-side component for Flex 2. FlexBuilder is essentially just another Flash IDE, like Flash 8. The value proposition here is that Adobe's editor is good enough that you should buy it to save yourself the effort of building Flash files without it. CF, on the other hand, is nothing but server-side functionality. While it's most often used to generate HTML, it can be used to generate all sorts of text for all sorts of consumption. It's much harder to build a useful IDE for that, since the big draw of IDEs is generally the integration of visual and code editing functionality. For what it's worth, Dreamweaver is a kick-ass HTML authoring tool, but it's not universally popular with CF developers, while CF Studio and Eclipse are inferior HTML authoring environments, but apparently more popular with CF developers. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ Fig Leaf Software provides the highest caliber vendor-authorized instruction at our training centers in Washington DC, Atlanta, Chicago, Baltimore, Northern Virginia, or on-site at your location. Visit http://training.figleaf.com/ for more information! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:249225 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
