Hi Ted, thanks for the clarification. You know that the Flex community has suffered a lot in the last months and the ones who make a living of it are very sensitive to unsubstantiated argumentation. Looking forward to attend to this webminar and see how the transition is approached.
Thanks -- Joan Llenas Masó http://joan.garnet.io @joangarnet (es) @joanllenas (en) On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 05:38, Ted Patrick <ted.patr...@extjs.com> wrote: > Hello Apache Flex. My name is Ted Patrick, I run developer relations > at Sencha and formerly worked at Adobe on Flex as an evangelist and > have used Flash since it was FutureSplash and Flex since 1.5. > > I thought I might clarify some things... > > We launched a marketing campaign to talk to Flex developers about > exploring Sencha frameworks for HTML5 application development. Prior > to my joining Sencha, a document was created to compare Flex vs ExtJS. > The document was written 6 months ago and contains inaccuracies in > time and author perspective. Yesterday Jeffrey pointed out the PDF to > me on twitter and highlighted some inaccuracies. Rather than have an > inaccurate document create confusion, defensiveness, and conspiracy > theories, I had the document removed. I am rewriting the document from > scratch to be launched during the webinar. > > I have a deep respect for Flex, it is great technology. Flex brought > me great personal success and I am a better software developer for > knowing and evolving with it. (End of sentence) > > Within the upcoming webinar ( > > http://pages.sencha.com/flex-to-sencha-webinar.html?ls=sencha_twitter&ss=Flex2SenchaWebinar > ) and throughout our campaign you will not hear me (or anyone else at > Sencha) say one negative thing about Flex. We will be focused on > exposing Sencha's frameworks to Flex developers looking to embrace > HTML5 for applications. Simple as that. > > If you have any questions or complains, please reach out to me > directly at ted.patr...@sencha.com. > > My only ask is... Please stay laser focused on making Apache Flex kick ass. > > Regards, > > Ted Patrick > Developer Relations > Sencha >
