Adobe frees software to win developers

by admin July 4, 2006 at 1:03 pm

Flexes muscles

Adobe Systems has shaken up pricing and packaging of its Flex rich web content creation software to increase its appeal among developers considering AJAX, while updating its ubiquitous Flash player.

The company has dropped the price on its Flex 2 software development kit (SDK), previously only available as part of the Flex presentation server priced a hefty $15,000 per CPU. Adobe has additionally launched a free, single CPU version of its Flex Data Services, which provides message synchronisation and collaboration, normally priced at $20,000 per processor.

Adobe, who inherited the Flex family with its 2005 acquisition of Macromedia, hopes it can increase the number of developers using its content creation and media software. Flex, launched in 2004, has benefited from some healthy cheerleading by Adobe. Customers include Bowing, Dow Jones Indexes, Samsung, and SAP.

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