> -----Original Message----- > From: Roland Zwaga [mailto:rol...@stackandheap.com] > Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2012 3:32 AM > To: flex-dev@incubator.apache.org > Subject: Re: [OT] Atlassian > > > Well, I thought the link was interesting in light off some of the > comments > I heard on > one of the flexshow podcasts. I believe Michael Labriola (is that > correct > Mike?) made a > comment about how certain people at Adobe had made remarks about how > some > people were making millions doing Flex projects while all Adobe could > do > was charge 500 > dollars for a box of Flashbuilder. I think you are enforcing Labriola's point. Atlassian can make that much in a year because it sells licenses to each viewer, not to each developer/author (or, you can say that the author/viewer ratio is nearly 1:1). No license is required to view a Flash SWF (or Acrobat PDF for that matter) and the author/viewer ratio is not even close to 1:1). If you can figure out how Adobe can make money per SWF viewer, let me know.
Yes, LCDS was sold differently, but the free options (SOAP, REST) were sufficient enough and/or too entrenched. Alex Harui Flex SDK Developer Adobe Systems Inc. Blog: http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui
