Hi Alex, I wasn't implying that Adobe ought to make money from the Flash Player directly. All I wanted to highlight was the fact that during the Flex Summit it became apparent that there seemed to be a disconnect between Adobe and their enterprise customers. From what I understood left and right (but this is me interpreting of course) Adobe was realizing it didn't make any significant money in the enterprise area (one of the reasons given for focusing less on Flex). Adobe basically had one enterprise product, which was LCDS, which (I'm guessing) wasn't making the kind of money that they would like it to make. So I'm trying to understand where this disconnect between Adobe and its enterprise customers stemmed from, when Atlassian is a great example of a company who IS able to make money in that area. Like I said before, I'm not attacking/bashing Adobe, I'm just trying to understand where things went wrong.
Roland On 25 January 2012 23:19, Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com> wrote: > > -----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 > > > -- regards, Roland -- Roland Zwaga Senior Consultant | Stack & Heap BVBA +32 (0)486 16 12 62 | rol...@stackandheap.com | http://www.stackandheap.com
