Comments on: Adobe Expected To Lower The Cost Of The Flash Media Server (aka FMS) http://blog.halcyonsolutions.net/2007/09/19/adobe_expected_to_lower_the_cost_of_the_flash_media_server_aka_fmshtm/ Mon, 08 Sep 2008 18:43:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: Dan Rayburn http://blog.halcyonsolutions.net/2007/09/19/adobe_expected_to_lower_the_cost_of_the_flash_media_server_aka_fmshtm/#comment-526 Dan Rayburn Wed, 19 Sep 2007 21:44:13 +0000 http://blog.halcyonsolutions.net/2007/09/19/adobe_expected_to_lower_the_cost_of_the_flash_media_server_aka_fmshtm/#comment-526 Thanks for the link and you are right that while I can't publicly give sources, I'm not writing the post based on a no data to support it. It's also not a new idea, there has been talk by many in the industry for the last few months that Adobe is looking at potentially changing pricing and Adobe has already reduced the pricing for the CDNs in terms of what they have to charge as the platform license fee - which anyone can see based on getting a quote from a CDN today and 12 months ago. Thanks for the link and you are right that while I can’t publicly give sources, I’m not writing the post based on a no data to support it. It’s also not a new idea, there has been talk by many in the industry for the last few months that Adobe is looking at potentially changing pricing and Adobe has already reduced the pricing for the CDNs in terms of what they have to charge as the platform license fee - which anyone can see based on getting a quote from a CDN today and 12 months ago.

]]> By: brett http://blog.halcyonsolutions.net/2007/09/19/adobe_expected_to_lower_the_cost_of_the_flash_media_server_aka_fmshtm/#comment-524 brett Wed, 19 Sep 2007 21:43:48 +0000 http://blog.halcyonsolutions.net/2007/09/19/adobe_expected_to_lower_the_cost_of_the_flash_media_server_aka_fmshtm/#comment-524 I think you're right in that this initiative is spawned by Microsoft's free server space for Sliverlight devs, but in the larger context of existing developers this is a bit of a non-issue. There's a lot of hosting providers that offer FMS access, more or less on a lease basis. What Adobe needs to focus on ASAP is lowering the cost of Flex Data Services (I refuse to call it LiveCycle, what a horrid name). Months ago they said they were looking into the same kind of ISP partnerships that they've done with FMS in order to help subsidize the costs for developers, but none of this has materialized. FDS is in danger of going the way of the old Macromedia Generator unless they reform their pricing model. I think you’re right in that this initiative is spawned by Microsoft’s free server space for Sliverlight devs, but in the larger context of existing developers this is a bit of a non-issue. There’s a lot of hosting providers that offer FMS access, more or less on a lease basis.

What Adobe needs to focus on ASAP is lowering the cost of Flex Data Services (I refuse to call it LiveCycle, what a horrid name). Months ago they said they were looking into the same kind of ISP partnerships that they’ve done with FMS in order to help subsidize the costs for developers, but none of this has materialized. FDS is in danger of going the way of the old Macromedia Generator unless they reform their pricing model.

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