Thank you for your input thus far, everyone. For a little more background, my company still develops with LCDS, with a plan to switch to GraniteDS. I tried the FB 4.7 trial with Flex 4.12 and everything with our projects 'just works' (compiles at least; regression aside).
My gut is saying to just stick with 4.6 for now and switch to Flashdevelop or Intellij (me being hopeful about the latter) eventually. The speed increase (64 bit; newer compiler) and overall familiarity / lack of training time with Flash Builder 4.7 is appealing tho. That being said, the sales and support at Adobe is not what it used to be... -Adam On Apr 28, 2014 9:46 PM, "Alex Harui" <aha...@adobe.com> wrote: > Let me see if I can find some former Flex business folks and see what they > say. > > -Alex > > On 4/28/14 5:52 PM, "Adam Malejko" <a...@malejko.com> wrote: > > >Long time Flex developer and lurker; never posted - never needed to. > > > >I finally got the go-ahead to upgrade to Flash Builder 4.7 premium a > >little > >while ago, along with upgrading to the latest Apache Flex SDK. Little did > >I > >know that the Flash Builder upgrade was not technically possible. I have > >v3 > >and v4.5 premium keys (yet use v4.6), but no v4 premium or v4.5 standard > >key which would technically work to upgrade from. > > > >So after chatting and talking to Adobe representatives, I believe it's > >time > >to look at my options. > > > >1) Does anyone know how I can possibly upgrade to v4.7 without having to > >buy the full $699 v4.7 license? $49 to upgrade from v4 sounds great! Even > >$499 isn't terrible, but after sticking with them for this long I am being > >forced to buy the full version for $699? Really? In the buying guide [1], > >you see that "n/a" in there? That's me. SOL. > > > >2) I've used Flash Builder for many years now and haven't really looked at > >the other options until recently. How do IntelliJ IDEA, FDT and > >Flashdevelop compare from a developers perspective? I'm only starting to > >write mobile apps which triggered the update from the Adobe SDK. > > > >3) Should I just install the Apache Flex SDK in Flash Builder 4.6? Will > >that work for mobile apps? > > > > > >[1] > > > http://www.adobe.com/ca/products/flash-builder/buying-guide.displayTab2.ht > >ml > > > >-Adam > >
