Flash Builder 4 and Flash Catalyst hit Labs

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Posted in Flex | Posted on 06-01-2009 | 2,636 views

The title says it all. The public betas of ~~Flex~~Flash Builder 4 and Flash Catalyst have just hit Adobe Labs. You can download them right now!

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William from Lagos said on 06-01-2009 at 12:46 AM #
	awesome!

Syed said on 06-01-2009 at 1:12 AM #
	Flex 4 looks promising. I have to start learning now :)

Tom Chiverton said on 06-01-2009 at 8:05 AM #
	Well, unless you are on Linux, of course. Looks like Adobe aren't going to offer (at least the beta) Builder 4 to users of Linux, even though that issue in their bug base is the most popular one by a factor of 3 (http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/secure/IssueNavigator.j...). This is a real shame :-(

Raymond Camden said on 06-01-2009 at 8:14 AM #
	I would assume that Adobe just made the decision based on sales. Do you honestly think FB would sell enough to warrant the additional cost? (Although I assume the cost isn't much more since it's all Eclipse based.) Adobe isn't stupid - if they could make money off of it I'm sure they would.

Tom Chiverton said on 06-01-2009 at 8:51 AM #

300 votes x $250 x 10 'people who would buy if they could but didn't vote' = ~750 thousand dollars.
I don't mean to tell Adobe how to do business, but that's a lot of money. They'd make a profit.

If the plan is to let Builder on Linux wither on the vine, then they should come out and say so, not let it dangle on Labs, ticking down to it's time-limited license expiring.
Then all it's users can go off and look at their other options - IntelliJ's product, or something not-Flex based at all (QT is on all three platforms, for instance, as is Gears). I wouldn't want to throw away my investment in Flex unless I had to.

Raymond Camden said on 06-01-2009 at 8:56 AM #
	I seriously doubt everyone who _says_ they want FB on Linux would actually pay for it. That being said, if Adobe has NOT made an official statement, they absolutely should. I'm 100% in agreement with you here.

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