ummm, looks like I got served On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 3:58 PM, Robert Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> Oh, btw, you may want to take out the gum in your mouth before posting. > > It alleviates the "ummmmm" effect quite nicely. > > No need for that, it's a sarcastic lead-in. j'off (signing off) > > -r > > On Aug 26, 2008, at 12:53 PM, Doug McCune wrote: > > ummm, you're a flex consultant afraid of not having work because of > adobe? are you looking at the same market I am? > > The "adobe is cannibalizing it's user base" argument might hold a > little water when it comes to the products they're developing (pshop > express, buzzword, etc). But god knows there's more Flex consulting > work out there than anyone knows what to do with. Try crying wolf once > any semblance of a problem emerges. And has someone really fired you > because they started using scene 7? really? > > Doug > > On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 9:30 AM, Robert Thompson <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]<plasmaphonic%40mac.com>> > wrote: > > Although I'll hold my breath until more and more info. is released into > the > > public. > > > > I'm a little concerned that Adobe is starting to get the "Take over the > > world" vision with Scene 7.0 > > > > They appear to be heading towards a consulting type service (as well as > > selling to us developers) where people can create FLEX like sites and > > experiences that were the hope and promise of developers to capitalize on > > buy spending, in my case, $1,777 on the FLEX 3.0 with ILOG Elixr > components. > > > > I have many projects planned in this area. > > > > But when will come the day when someone says, "Oh, I just purchase Adobe > > Scene 7.0, we don't need to contract you any longer". > > > > If this turns out to be the case, it will ultimately result in the same > > Entropy demise of IBM, which was followed by Microsoft, and which I hope > > Adobe does not plan to fall into. > > > > Why would a developer dedicate years of his life to APIs from Adobe when, > > ultimately, the way things are turning out, why don't we just get down to > > the GPU level an 'C' Program NVIDIA CUDO to do the ultimate in 3-4 years > > time, rather than let someone sucker us into purchasing products, very > > expensive ones, only to turn and compete with us. > > > > Things are not looking pretty and it appears to me that Open Source, ala, > > Blender instead of Maya, CUDO and Apache SOAP instead of Coldfusion, and > > DHTML will perhaps some new submissions to the W3C -- perhaps that's the > new > > message us developers need to listen to. > > > > As Henry Rollins says in his great song "Liar", "Please, I'm sorry, just > > give me anther chance....Ah, ha, ha, ha, ha, oooooooooooooo.....SUCKER, > > Sucker.....aaaaahhhh, I like it (the money)....I FEEL GOOD". > > > > Do you feel good Adobe? Where do you want to go today? > > > > I'll follow this....if this heads where I think it is, I will put out the > > message. > > > > -r > > > > > > >
