Matt, One of the best ways in my opinion to market Flex is by having Flex applications in the wild.
As a ColdFusion developer I am excited about the possibilities of using ColdFusion and Flex together. I do however think it would be nice to have a few more CF Flex-centric articles and tutorials available. The CF wizards that are available with Flex Builder are great but they do not quite get me where I want to go. I would like to see an example application that includes security using cflogin. A fully functioning Flex + CF application such as cfpetstore would be nice too. You have a pretty passionate and vocal community of ColdFusion developers. Get us to be as equally vocal and passionate about Flex. I think that would help in marketing Flex a great deal. Ray --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "Matt Chotin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hey guys, I'm trying to get a better statement of our marketing plans > and what we're doing currently so you can see that we're not exactly > sitting idle here. In the meantime, I hear you guys say that none of > your friends tend to hear of Flex, but they know other technologies. So > where do they hear about other technologies? Are they reading certain > publications? Blogs? When they talk about other technologies do they > actually know what they're talking about or is it just repeating the > buzz? > > > > Matt > > > > ________________________________ > > From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Tariq Ahmed > Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2006 1:58 PM > To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com > Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Flex Marketing > > > > I'd agree to that. The marketing effort seems to heavily rely on the > development community doing that job for them. Things like labs and > DevNet are KEY to maximizing technology adoption - but people need to > know about it in the first place. > > To Restate Adobe's Goal: 1 000 000 Flex Developers by 2010. > > Some HEAVY DUTY marketing is needed. It definitely made sense to capture > those who are most amiable to Flex (CF and Flash developers) first and > grow from there. I think someone blogged about this before; in that of > course Adobe related blogs are going to be heavy proponents for Adobe > technologies. But now it's time to penetrate into the rest of the world. > > In polling my heavy duty tech friends in other industries, they BARELY > know what Flex is. Many haven't heard of it. And some have heard of it, > just because they heard me mention it. > > Awareness of the brand and technology needs to be more prevalent. > > Gimme a cool Flex decal and I'll put it on my car! :) > > > > Clint Modien wrote: > > I mentioned this @ the Silicon Valley Flex User Group meeting > the > other day but I wanted to reiterate it here and see if I could > invoke > a response from Adobe. > > Mr. Mendels? > > Where is the marketing for Flex? Why keep the most beautiful > framework in the world for creating applications a secret? Where > are > the Visual Studio style banner adds everywhere. Where is the > buzz for > it on Slashdot. Why arn't other developers in the world standing > up > and saying is creating applications really this easy!?! > > I've seen the lights go on in a developers eyes when they get > it. > When they see what 5 lines of code can acomplish with Flex. They > get > excited. Excitement sells licenses. > > (Gets off his soapbox and points to it...) ... Thoughts? > -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
