Flex Team

This is good to hear. The flex.org looks like a nice starting point. We'll are sure to help pitch in of course.

Hi Matt and the rest;

I would like to thank you all for creating such a revolutionary product.

After visiting Adobe and seeing you guys in action, it's pure enthusiasm that takes you higher.

For those that don't know, these are real people trying to make a real difference in the world through their innovation and dreams. They tell jokes with the best of them.

Keep up the great work and it will be fun to see where this ride takes us all.

Peace, Mike

Congrats Matt and team. It was really hardwork and dedication behind this release. I feel great that I was part of it for almost entire cycle and could contribute to Flex 2.0.

Party time...

-abdul

Congratulations Adobe Flex Team.

This is great move toward RIA Application development.

I am very happy that I have contributed to this product as a part of flash player 9 team.

Thank Flex team.

I have waited to hear from you for months.

Congratulation!

I hope you to enlarge your business.

Good luck!

Congratulations to those 100 people that make this dream come true :). Flex 2 and Flash Player 9 are really awesome and the possibility to play with such great technology from alpha - to beta - to final release was a real pleasure.

This day marks the start of Web 3.0 in the Internet!! ;)

Thank you Matt!

Congratulations. It's great to see a wonderful product finally ship. Everyone on the team should be very proud.

I want to say a big THANKS to all talented people which made this product available (and will hopefuly continue to make it even better). Congratulations!
Milan

Thanks a lot from France.

Go ahead on delivering such great opportunities for us to deliver what our clients deserve.

Thanks again,

Denys

Great Work Like Always and AS Expected!

Unfortunately there seems to be a big empty space where I was expecting to buy the OSX version of FlexBuilder. I was really excited today when I heard about the release, because even though Mac users had been left out in the cold in the public alpha/beta, we had been promised a cross platform release.

And no, I still don't care about LightRoom.

Hi Michael,

I believe we indicated a while ago that we wouldn't ship the Mac version with the first release because we needed to focus on getting the Windows version right. Now that that's done we'll be working hard to get the Mac version out as soon as possible. As I said on flexcoders the timing is unknown and there are still chances we could run into setbacks, but we're trying.

I luvv the Flickr Flash Widget!

I would luvv to develop my own AdWidget based on that!

Look forward to seeing Flex2!!

Cheers! Billy ;))

Could you please give me the real scoop on the FDS Express.
1- is it one App per CPU or one App on one CPU only?
2- will Express run on a dual-processor server?
3- Is a Coldfusion FlexMessage gateway instance considered the one Express App?

FDS Express will allow you to deploy any number of Flex applications on a single physical CPU (we only license physical CPUs not virtual CPUs). You cannot deploy FDS on multi-CPU machines or deploy the application in a clustered or loadbalnced environment.

Flex applications that interact with CF are licensed in an identical way. CF is licensed seperatly from FDS and visa-versa. Flex applications using FDS and talking with CF for data connectivity through CFCs will need a valid FDS license (Express or otherwise depending on the number of CPUs FDS is deployed on) and a valid CF license.

If you have further questions feel free to email me directly at eranders@adobe.com.

Eric Anderson
Flex Product Manager
Adobe

I don't understand the concept?? We have been building a complex flex2 application over the last 4 month. We have trusted ADOBE to do the right thing and bring RIA somewhat closer to world. Congratulation to a great product! Now that many developer are ready to deploy there realize that you need an extremely lucrative application to make this feasible. I have only one web server and this server happened to have 2 CPU's so if I understand right I would have to spend $40.000 US to run my application. You ask your self how many people will spend $40.000 US to run a web application this is surely out or the reach of most people and difficult to justify for most smaller companies. It is the complexity of the application and the amount of data exchanged which makes your application CPU heavy not the amount of money it makes.

Hi can anyone from ADOBE please explain the term CPU to me. It is used in some of the documentation in different ways. It would be good if in future you can refer to Processor’s installed or Server. There is talk about CPU cluster for example, I have heard of clustered server and of multi processor server however clustered CPU's is new to me and if we talk about $20.000 for a 'CPU' or processor in my language it would be good to have a clear understanding.

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I was on the Adobe website today to update my ColdFusion server and decided to give Flex a try while I was "in the neighborhood." I immediately fell in love with it. By keeping a constant connection with the server, you can basically deploy a mini C++ app.

I decided to check out the possibilities of getting a hosting account to deploy an app via the web... I was amazed when HostMySite explained they can't offer it due to licensing restrictions.

I personally can't afford to lease a dedicated server, stock it with ColdFusion, Flex and the like, dedicate 1/2 my time to managing server side issues instead of coding, and then expect to survive for any length of time. Adobe is sitting on a goldmine if they would scrap this policy and allow hosting companies to deploy Flex... what a waste.

It's taking us longer than expected to work out the hosting details. We are working on it though.

Any updates on the Mac release of Flex2?

I agree with Dirk regarding the hosting. We just can't afford to do it all by ourselves.

Have any Flex 2 hosting solutions come about since his post on July 2?

We're still working on getting this arranged.

Face it Developers. Macromedia is brain dead in prices for application server software.
There as many FREE back end technologies that will do nearly as good. And are usually easier to deploy. So just let Macromedia sit on its arse and think its gods gift with such cool technology. Let the world pass it by.
Just get on with the job with FREE software and forget the greedy Marketeers.

James

I hope you don't mind the question, but what is the time horizon to have the hosting issue resolved? And while it is being resolved, has Adobe considered offering hosting services? I like what I've seen. I have my Flex 2 book right in front of me. I have pre-ordered a book on actionscript 3. I have my credit card ready to buy flex builder. I cleaned up my desk. I'm ready to invest time on flex and figuring out how to connect to an EJB3 backend. But the big question is, what happens when I'm done if there are no hosting services? This is a show-stopper, and --as others have stated-- this would be a very good show.