Flex 3 goes open source. How does it affect WebORB?
If you have not heard by now, you must be on a totally disconnected island (lucky you!). Adobe announced Flex 3 will be open sourced under the Mozilla Public license. This is the right step given how the RIA battlefield is shaping up. The key to victory is not only a carefully thought-out strategy, but a massive army of countless and devoted troops. The Open Source move can certainly add many more. (I still need to read up what Sun Tzu says about it).
Clearly the news is great. There's plenty of commentary written already, so I'd rather just concentrate on what the announcement does to us:
- WebORB can now be more like
FDS(sorry, I meant to say LCDS) in a sense that your project code (MXML/AS) can be compiled on the fly. The product will monitor changes to the deployed source files and will recompile if a change is made to generate a new SWF - MXML/AS compiler can be integrated into our own code generator. This way you can run the generated code without bringing it into Flex Builder
- We're exploring tighter integration with Visual Studio to make it easier for ASP.NET developers to jump onto the Flex bandwagon.
- There are a few other things I just cannot talk about yet, but they are uber-cool :)
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3 Comments:
I wish you guys would focus more on Ruby on Rails development than .NET. It seems like you definitely have a bias in your server preference.
1:22 PM
I hear ya. We certainly plan to get back to it.
Btw, how much would you pay for a WebORB for Rails license? :)
2:49 PM
The companies that have the most money are generally the one's running the biggest sites taking the largest volume of users. That being said, MS is generally the favorite vendor of these types of corporations. When it comes to engineering sites that are taking millions of users a day and working off of insane budgets, it's hard to use anything but VS2005 & .NET. Obviously there are a couple other good alternatives, but I see nothing that compares to VS2005's IDE, Debugging, Intellisence, or Team Manager (TFS rocks!).
Thus us .Net people usually get the most attention as there are far more of us and have far bigger budgets.
my $.02
2:46 PM
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