Comments on: Adobe Flex, and its secret source

By: John Dowdell

John Dowdell — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 16:42:50 +0000

” Silverlight is a stunning technology. In many ways far superior then Adobes/Macromedias implementation. The reason for this is complex but lets say, the main gist is that Silverlight is closer to the metal. Its faster, can take more advantage of the special qualities of the hardware”

Sounds like you may be confusing Microsoft’s upcoming browser plugins with WPF.

(I don’t remember old pricing details, but it should be in archive.org.)

jd/adobe

By: Jakob

Jakob — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 02:56:21 +0000

This is exactly what I expected to find out after reading the title Analysis. Thanks for informative article

By: Mark Hinkle

Mark Hinkle — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 04:58:20 +0000

Thanks for the vote of confidence. JamieG. Obviously we agree that having an open source offering does make sense.

To your point on OSS and to those critics that do dismiss this new software. If you look at the Clayton Christensen school of thought on disruptive technologies taking a chunk from incumbent technology. They typically start as a low-end product and rapidly move up the value chain. I suspect Sun didn’t list Red Hat on their threat list in the early 90s but today they are very much aware of them as a threat to Solaris.

Perhaps the example speaks to the reality that by the time someone sees the open source threat it’s already to late.

Regards,
Mark
Zenoss Open Source Community Manager