Its no secret that Adobe has been going through a turbulent patch the recent months while they have been implementing their new adaptive strategy to an unruly future.
Its included layoffs and new hirings, internal repositioning and new layouts of their many divisions within services and products and they have taken a deep look at the business in terms products and offerings in the process of optimizing their market profile…
Its been painful, not only to see beloved team members leave Adobe but also to see that this major company refurbishing has not really been successfully communicated to both community, but also to users of the software and companies using services based on Adobe partners… even investors has been confused by the lack of diligence in the communication, however, its increasingly behind us as the new changes are settling in and the changes to the teams is stabilizing…
One of the massively controversial changes was the dealing with the future vision for Flex and the Flash Platform… I will not go into details with what has transpired over the past months, its well documented on every blog and site relevant to the community and product ecosystem and its not with a great pleasure I’m looking back on the past months… so let’s leave it behind and instead focus on the most recent statement from Adobe on their vision for Flex…
Now, there is not a lot new statements under the sun, however in contrast to the scrambling messages and divergent directions we have been seeing until now, its nice to see that Adobe has taken a deep breath and made a firm statement which would be difficult to misinterpret either positively or negatively…
If you are in a hurry and not interested in reading the entire writeup, I’m sharing with you the conclusion in a nutshell which confirms some of the more positive statements we have seen over the past months…
Adobe believes that Flex is the best solution for enterprise and data-centric application development today and is moving Flex into a community-driven open source project to ensure the continued development and success of Flex for years to come. We are currently in the process of contributing the core Flex SDK, automation libraries, AIR SDK binaries, and documentation to the Apache Flex Project. We will also be contributing Falcon, Falcon JS, Mustella, and BlazeDS.
In addition to these contributions, Adobe is providing a team of full-time Flex SDK engineers who will contribute to and support the Apache Flex Project. These Adobe engineers will work directly with the highly skilled Flex developer community to maintain, support, and evolve the Flex SDK. We remain committed to enabling the success of all existing and new Flex projects.
Thank you Adobe, for setting the record straight and for sharing with us your intentions and vision for Flex… its a privilege to be on the team…
Forward Thinking 