Re: [CFCDev] Xaml vs Mxml

[Peter Hardy]

hmmm ... am not sure that's a realistic assessment of the situation.

 

Microsoft has invested an enormous amount of time and money on it's new platform which includes  the WPF (Avalon) Framework. This has to be a success for Microsoft and so a success it will be. Anyone who doubts this just needs to look at how Microsoft behaved when the xbox was launched.

 

With Flex 2 on the horizon and Microsofts entry still in Beta I don't think anyone could say which is technically the strongest. But if MM continues to charge high prices for software that MS gives away for free then the future doesn't look too bright The take-over of MM by Adobe is an interesting twist but Adobe's strength and focus is on the presentation tier. I'm not convinced that Coldfusion or Flex had a lot to do with Adobes purchase or what will happen when the inevitable shuffle takes place.

 

Cheers Pete (aka lad4bear)

 

 

On 01/11/05, John Farrar [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Lets see… xaml is supposed to run only on the new windows if you want a full feature set… and it is very resource intensive today. That one if reports are accurate should be easy to combat with Flex 2. Microsoft always hooks products to sell other products. They give you something cheap that will fail you when you need to do something very serious. It's how they capture the enterprise market. I don't know they won't play nice… but beware of Trojan Horse gifts! I am only skeptical because MS has been a part of my reality from DOS 1.x and they have played a centric game all the way. (P.S. I still like and use some of the products they have… my outlook isn't totally gloom.)

 

Also… the better question is what will MS be doing to catch up with Adobe Flex and Flash tools. For some reason you are thinking that a product that isn't out is already seated against a product that is out. With Adobe clout pushing Flash and Flex 2 this is not a given that MS will win. (Study your history… MS tried to come out with a Flash alternative 3 years ago. It died and they started using flash all over their sites!) Macromedia has already won the first round of the battle… the XML language is only round two and this time it's the combined force of MM with Adobe.

 

John Farrar

 

P.S.

Even Oracle is not in beta for a free version of the DB server, Google is going to help promote Star Office… and there is much going on that says the crest of MS dominance seems to have started to curl! HEH!

 

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Ung, Seng
Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2005 1:02 PM
To: CFCDev@cfczone.org
Subject: [CFCDev] Xaml vs Mxml

 

All:

I am wondering how Micromedia/Adode plans on conteracting the future of XAML?

 

Any ideas of the pricing for Xaml? 

 

 

Thanks

Seng Ung

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