RE: [flexcoders] How do you advise clients about building for the future - how long before Flex2 is worth their time?

2006-06-02 Thread Jack W. Caldwell
Karl: Ok. Thanks, Jack From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Karl JohnsonSent: Thursday, June 01, 2006 10:42 PMTo: flexcoders@yahoogroups.comSubject: RE: [flexcoders] How do you advise clients about "building for the future" - how long before Flex2

Re: [flexcoders] How do you advise clients about building for the future - how long before Flex2 is worth their time?

2006-06-02 Thread Tom Chiverton
On Friday 02 June 2006 03:53, Jack W. Caldwell wrote: Flash 9. Do you see such a resistance on the part of the consumer market user to not upgrade? The problem will be if your app is used in corporate environments, where most desktop users will not be able to upgrade Flash themeselves. --

RE: [flexcoders] How do you advise clients about building for the future - how long before Flex2 is worth their time?

2006-06-01 Thread Tracy Spratt
IMHO, only existing clients with large applications will stay with 1.5/as2. The licence cost of 1.5 prevented all but large enterprise clients from adopting Flex. 2.0 breaks that barrier, and any shop can now build Flex apps of any size for the cost of development. The third party market

RE: [flexcoders] How do you advise clients about building for the future - how long before Flex2 is worth their time?

2006-06-01 Thread Karl Johnson
I definitely agree with your points regarding licensing, but the problem with adoption of flex 2.0 as the platform for consumer apps is the need for the adoption of the new player. I personally would not want to release a production flex 2.0 app to the world, on a public site, until the

RE: [flexcoders] How do you advise clients about building for the future - how long before Flex2 is worth their time?

2006-06-01 Thread Jack W. Caldwell
Karl: This seems to contradict what Adobe has said about the "seamless" upgrading to Flash 9. Do you see such a resistance on the part of the consumer market user to not upgrade? If so, why? Will theupgrading not be as easy as we think? Thanks, Jack From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com

RE: [flexcoders] How do you advise clients about building for the future - how long before Flex2 is worth their time?

2006-06-01 Thread Karl Johnson
No, sorry if I implied that. I don't think the upgrade will be hard in anyway. I am sure a lot of users will do it as soon as the player is available. Not a resistance on the user's part, my point is just that, like any browser upgrade or web control/addin upgrade, the casual internet