Comments on: Flex developers, stay put – our time is coming in 2008

By: Jeff Houser

Jeff Houser — Sun, 17 Dec 2006 05:31:15 +0000

I just want to add, that as best I can tell… the work is not out there for Flex in my geographic area.

For those that are busy, where are you located?

There seems to be a lot of interest. But, it is a cautious interest and people aren’t ready to commit money towards it yet.

By: Yakov

Yakov — Sun, 17 Dec 2006 02:41:32 +0000

Early to rise and early to bed makes a man healthy but socially dead As to things that are heating up… I have enough work on my plate, but my thermometer is dice.com.

By: Campbell

Campbell — Sun, 17 Dec 2006 01:52:44 +0000

Ha ha I have noticed alot of devs going to bed earlier and getting up earlier…..might try it and change my 3am bed time lol. Yakov, Things are already heating up!

By: Jamie Badman

Jamie Badman — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 23:07:18 +0000

Agreed with Peter – the work’s out there. Particularly, it seems, specifically for Flex Charting – this seems to really be capturing imaginations as far as I can make out. I’m totally sticking with Flex – something this good has to be worth staying with!

By: JesterXL

JesterXL — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 15:47:31 +0000

7am!? HOLY COW!!!

Anyway, thanks for the summary.

By: Yakov

Yakov — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 14:10:19 +0000

Bruce, good question…I didn’t pay special attention to CF, but I don’t think there were any specific mentioning of CF.

By: Bruce

Bruce — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 14:05:41 +0000

How were sales of ColdFusion? Any mention in the material you reviewed (thanks for saving me the time of reading through it all myself).

By: Peter Elst

Peter Elst — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 13:59:37 +0000

I think this was to be expected — as I see it Flex 2 is now part of the Flash platform and making it free and open to developers will drive revenue for commercial products by Adobe taking this to the next level.

Looking at this financial report I think its import to see that Flex 2 is actually creating a lot of revenue at the moment, though not particularly for Adobe. Consultancy rates for Flex 2 projects have shot up and I for one have enough work offers coming in to cover 300% of my time.

This drive for Flex application development, and Apollo coming up some time in the new year will mark the Flash platform tools becoming a real source of revenue for Adobe. The best move they ever made is going free with the SDK — the market is creating itself before their very eyes and the demand for things like FDS (though I think they might need to tweak their pricing structure to accommodate a mid-size market) will only get bigger.