Question: tools for business apps development

[Ksenia Marasanova]

>> -- Philosophically thinking, it's not free so it should not be used.
>> This a Stalmanish position, but it does have some power in the context
>> of a decision to use only free tools.
>
> The player is free.  And while the ability to create Flash files
> is also free, it's true that currently there are few useful tools
> to do that, and the alternatives are not only not free, but in
> some cases are rather expensive (especially compared to where the
> price of development tools has come in recent years).  I suspect
> that as Macromedia finds more of a market amongst developers for
> this sort of thing (as Dan suggests they are doing) they may
> discover that charging $500 for the development side isn't going to
> get them much of the market.  Maybe something less "flashy" and
> more staid and serious for more like $50-200 would get them into
> that area much more rapidly.
>

Unfortunatelly, the price of Macromedia's latest (and greatest, I 
think) development tool is very high - $12000.
The name is Flex: http://www.macromedia.com/software/flex/

Ksenia.