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Comment on Flash Builder Client-Side Data Management vs. LCDS by quetwo

quetwo — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 01:20:43 +0000

Steven,
I personally think that the sales team is using this to their advantage. Most of them have no idea what the product does (which clearly translates to a lot of the marketing material out there). I don’t think it is evil in nature, but LCDS is a very complex product. A simple comparison would really show that that this product adds very little to the table when multiple other products are added together. As BlazeDS gets more powerful, and people figure out how to do this DCD stuff by themselfs, it makes it very hard to sell the value (espically at $30k/cpu with a min of 2 cpu).

LCDS has a lot of value, but I don’t think Adobe, nor many of their customers understand it. Many developers do, but unfortunatly, it is completely priced out of the market for 99% of the people who would use it. Heck, if they dropped the price to be comparable to CF Enterprise, I bet it would sell like crazy.

Comment on Flash Builder Client-Side Data Management vs. LCDS by Steven Erat

Steven Erat — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 00:44:24 +0000

Thanks for your post Nick. This helps clear up some of my confusion about the overlap in technologies.

I think Adobe would be well served to have a feature comparison chart or something similar to make it crystal clear when DCD will solve your problem and when LCDS is the better choice.

With the twitter dialogue I had about this last night, it became evident that the terminology for each approach overlaps too much. Yes they both have Data Management, but it would be better if they had different names for that feature to avoid a semantic nightmare when trying to explain it. Its a little like the Abbott & Costello skit about “Who’s on First?”

Comment on Introduction to Papervision3D by 3d architektur visualsierung

3d architektur visualsierung — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 12:22:50 +0000

Thank you for this video, it gave me a lot of ideas how to create cool things in pv3d.

Comment on The truth about avoiding the phone company with VoIP by David Smith

David Smith — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 14:23:52 +0000

Good post Nick. I don’t often think of these types of issues.

Comment on Code Samples by Charles

Charles — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 19:19:08 +0000

Hi,

i checked out your sample code for
‘5-Minute CRUD with ColdFusion, Flex and LiveCycle DS’

thanks alot for the code…
when i change the data in the grid, it does not save to the server or push to the other clients.

can u help me with this?

Thanks

Comment on Why are you NOT using LiveCycle DS? by quetwo

quetwo — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 04:20:31 +0000

Jon,
Yeah, LCDS Single-CPU edition / Community Edition won’t be available for 3.0 Adobe feels that they are giving us enough in BlazeDS (they are giving us a lot), but in some cases, LCDS was really what was needed for a project. I’m hoping that coupled with this news that LCDS will get a lower-cost version that will be able to be used for smaller applications. I don’t mind paying a few hundred dollars for it, but the current price tag will lock too many people out of the technology.

Comment on Why are you NOT using LiveCycle DS? by Jon Rose

Jon Rose — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 04:11:08 +0000

From the comments on Anil’s blog, it sounds like the free single-cpu version is being done away with, which is bad news for those us hoping for LCDS to gain a larger market share.

Comment on Deploying RSLs in Flex by Mark Brindle

Mark Brindle — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:52:17 +0000

Eric, I gave up!

Nothing I did worked. I think it has to do with the fact that the Axis needs an embeded font (for rotaton) and the SWZ does not see the font. I’m not sure, but I spent a few days and gave up. It’s a shame though.

Comment on Deploying RSLs in Flex by Eric

Eric — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:00:42 +0000

I am not seeing the axis text on my charts as well after I went to a RSL for the framework.

Has anyone found a solution for this?

Comment on How to get hired : Resume Tricks by Michael Labriola

Michael Labriola — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:42:41 +0000

This is a great post.

As an employer, the title made me fear it would be full of tricks that would just make me shake my head. Instead, it is full of honest, correct and direct information.

Well done,
Michael Labriola