Comments on: Next version of Flex Builder will be named Flash Builder 4!

By: shaguf

shaguf — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 07:02:22 +0000

Saltmarch Media’s annual Great Indian Developer Awards honors software Products. The final shortlist consists of IBM’s Rational Application Developer; Microsoft’s Visual Studio 2010; Adobe’s Flex Builder; Popular open-source IDE – Eclipse and Microsoft’s Expression Studio. Oracle’s JBuilder was the first IDE to win this award in 2008 followed by Microsoft’s Visual Studio 2008 in the 2009 chapter of the same awards. So visit the 2010 Great Indian Developer Awards website and cast your vote. It counts! (developersummit dot com/gida3_llist)

By: Flex Builder????Flash Builder « ??'s Blog

Flex Builder????Flash Builder « ??'s Blog — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 13:00:33 +0000

[...] http://www.webkitchen.be/2009/05/16/next-version-of-flex-builder-will-be-named-flash-builder-4/ When you build applications in Flex Builder, you’re building them with the open source Flex Framework and ActionScript. The applications then get compiled in to a SWF-file that runs in the Flash Player. When talking to customers, I regularly got asked if you needed “Flex Player” installed to run an application and that is exactly the type of confusion that we want to solve. By renaming Flex Builder to Flash Builder, there is no doubt what you are going to build using this product. You’re going to build an application that will run on the ubiquitous and trusted Flash Player. [...]

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By: Rosanne Costa

Rosanne Costa — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 22:50:37 +0000

Next version of Flex Builder will be named Flash Builder 4… http://tinyurl.com/ykzkra4

By: David

David — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 17:32:38 +0000

This renaming is where “branding” gets in the way of actual usage of a technology. In case the Adobe folks haven’t noticed, Flex is bringing in a whole new HUGE wave of fans to use the Flash technology in a specific way (i.e. no spinning fire graphics and circling logos) for BUSINESS usage. Renaming this product not only will confuse people who hire people who use the technology, but, also confuse the people who want to invest in it…i.e. but, isn’t it just Flash?

Is a Flex developer also a Flash developer (NO!).
Is a Flash developer a Flex developer (Of course NOT!).
Is a Java developer a Flex developer (Probably!)
Is a Java developer interested in Flash development (99 times out of 100, NO!)
Is a Flex developer interested in Flash development (see above).

Come on Adobe, I believe you are better than this.