I was looking forward to developing for MM Central. The possibilities are endless for my organisations Intranet. The possibility of bringing a lot of applications into a single environment and the advantages that Central provides for that situation are very compeling. That was until I saw the licensing for Central...
http://www.macromedia.com/software/central/license/license_programs/ ... according to Mike Chambers at MM, applications in a corporate Intranet are required to be covered by a capacity license. A 100-user Capacity-Pack sells for US$2000 per year per app. I know MM have to make money out of all this, but I am afraid that my organisation will not see this as a good thing, considering that we have upwards of a thousand PC's. I don't have a solution to offer MM, but I don't think I will be developing for Central - a real shame. I am confused also by the license. It states that a commercial app is: "...defined as any application used to generate revenues-either directly through the sale of the application, or indirectly through the promotion of another offering. " And define the free license as: "The Free, Noncommercial Deployment License is intended for the deployment of applications that will not used for the purposes of generating revenues, either directly or indirectly." Ok, I can see that an app on an intranet would benefit the organisation "indirectly", but could you not say the same for a free app? If I build a free Central app, I would most likely do so because it will generate traffic to my site, and show people what a wonderful flash app developer I am, and hope that they will then employ me on a contract. Is that not "indirect revenue" ?? Hilary -- --- You are currently subscribed to fugli as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] MXDU2004 + Macromedia DevCon AsiaPac + Sydney, Australia http://www.mxdu.com/ + 24-25 February, 2004
