11/08/2003 9:16:50 AM, Tab Julius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I agree, it's clear the market is dramatically reduced. Just curious, >compared to a couple of years ago, where do people think it is? 30% of >what it was? 10%? 60%? Where do you think it will be in two years? > >Specifically the Director/Lingo market. It's clear the Flash market is >much stronger. >
It's funny but my contracts seem to have gone opposite the market. For the 3 years prior to this one I was doing mostly net work... a bunch of e- commerce/product configurators with a tool called intershop and coldfusion and html stuff. A few cds and a bit of flash work thrown in here and there. The owner of the shop got nervous with the downturn in the market and changed directions (let's do banner ads instead, his primary company was an ad agency and he never really understood what we were doing) Anyway I've done nothing but director work this year. A big sales kiosk/ sales closing application and a bunch of cd and DVD-Roms. Currently the DVD-Rom market seems to be hot as far as learning tools for sales rep who are on the road all the time. Most of the IT departments I've worked with don't have their reps on the latest and greatest tech, they prefer a conservative tried and true approach so Flash MX is useless to me as far as internet stuff. That and for most of these reps there is no guarentee they'll get more than 56 k dial-up connnection while on the road and since most of the training tools have a lot of video CD/DVD-ROM is the answer (and flash can't handle the amount of video so that and other reasons leave me with Director). I think I can rely on that market for the next couple years, I'll see... I may have to do more flash work again then but for now I'm extremely happy to be back in the director world!! Rob [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
