Hi.
Did some of you saw the Adobe announcement of discontinuing LCCS service?
it's SaS with built in complex real time features (video conferences,
real time messaging and events, screensharing, based on a clustered
architecture giving a convenient pay per use offering without you
needing to take the server side in charge) and they will simply shut it
down at the end of the year, giving only 9 month to find an alternative
which does not exists yet, and whithout giving any starting point
solution. And they already disallowed the creation of new accounts after
the decision, making any new project based on this solution born dead.
Its not only a decision to stop further developement (it was not a beta
version by the way).
Its not only that we have to use previous build to continue business (as
it is the case for FLash builder Design view or flash catalyst), its
that the product will simply stop functionning letting businesses
running on it simply stop!
What shoudl i do now when im a freelance and my clients app will stop
running at the end of the year, and have no clear alternative?
After all those bad communication from Adobe, now its a very bad
decision leaving customers with only rope to hang out. (please Hobby one
Adobe you are my only rope)
Is there any other flex dev in the list in the same situation than me?
Adobe's people from the list, how do you comment such a move?
Will they stop FMS tomorrow?
Bad communication si one thing, but shutting a service without
alternative, making clients facing business death, is another.
Even after all previous bad events, i still gave enough trust into
Adobe, now after this LCCS case, its totally gone for me!
How can we trust Adobe in any declaration now?
How could i choose any Adobe product after such a "we don't care of our
clients even if our decision kill them" move?
How is it possible that Adobe did not learn a bit after the catastrophy
of last episodes? So whats next??
How can we trust Adobe when they say that they believe in Flash player,
Air, and Flex for the 5 or 10 next years to come at least, when they
kill their great Flash based technology today?
Its important for Apache flex because:
- LCCS was a great third party lib for flex to very easily make real
time functionnalities with a very clear pricing system. I think that
real time was a big point for flex against HTML5 today.
- If Adobe is capable of such a bad decision putting clients in such a
catastrophic situation, how can we trust Adobe for flex's runtime
future, especially Air which need further updates, support new future
platforms etc?
- It makes the HTML5 cross compilation a priority more than ever. (by
the way, any news about Adobe letting community to have a look at the
code of Falcon and FalconJS before donating it?)
- It adds (AGAIN!) a very bad trust image for freelances and agencies
clients against Adobe's technology and flex, making even more difficult
to support the choice against HTML5.
If a client know that their business live is at stake by choosing
Adobe's solution (or based on it) the choice will be quite easy!
Thanks
