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Flex Builder 2 Price Change Active

DIGG IT!     15 Comments Published Thursday, November 08, 2007 at 11:27 PM .

The price change for Flex 2 is NOW ACTIVE at Adobe.com! There was a delay in getting this active on the store at Adobe.com on November 1 and the pricing is now active as follows:

$249 US - PURCHASE Flex Builder 2


$699 US - PURCHASE Flex Builder 2 with Charting


Sorry for the delay.

Cheers,

Ted :)

15 Responses to “Flex Builder 2 Price Change Active”

  1. # Blogger JabbyPanda

    This post has been removed by the author.  

  2. # Blogger d4u

    Would it be possible to increase the font size a bit more, I can hardly see the text. What was that? New prices for Flex Builder?  

  3. # Blogger Ryan Guill

    You mentioned before that if we already have flex builder 2 w/ charting that we could pay $299 and get the maintenance to be eligible for the no cost update to flex 3 professional. How do I do that and where do I go?  

  4. # Anonymous Anonymous

    no ted, the price is 318.21 according to xe.com... now, if u want to evangalize tell me why the f**k i should pay more just because i live in europe. until you answer that, ted, let me suggest that you f**k right off  

  5. # Anonymous Marshall

    Ted and/or Enterprise Programmers in general,

    Besides taking traditional college classes for a CS degree, what goood text or curriculum would you recommend for learning classical programming methods/skills? What language do you think lends itself to good programming habbits?

    P.S. Why isn't the Adobe "Authorized" Training for Flex RIA available for retail purchase? Is Adobe locking it in to ONLY those institutions that have PAID their dues? Why not open it to the retail market?

    Thanks in advance for your attention.

    marshall  

  6. # Anonymous Anonymous

    I don't see where in the Adobe store we can purchase the $99 maintenance for Flex Builder 2 standard to make us eligble for the Flex Builder 3 upgrade...  

  7. # Anonymous Anonymous

    Just crank out the bucks...stop flapping your fingers and slap down some cash...

    or try http://fdt.powerflasher.com/  

  8. # Blogger mitek

    Hmmmm....Still not quite right.
    Australia:

    Flex 2:
    Ship box: A$345
    Download: A$759


    Flex2 with Charting:
    ship box: A$969
    download: A$1145

    Is it some kind of a TNT/UPS lobby? :)

    PS As usual the conversion rate is ridiculous - currently Aussie buck is 0.9164 of USD

    USD$249 vs A$345
    USD$699 vs A$969

    Adobe still has a conversion rate ~0.72 which was 2 in place years ago.
    Strange way of earning income.  

  9. # Blogger Ted Patrick

    Details on the support/upgrade licensing for Flex 3 are coming. The key is that the lower Flex Builder licensing is in place and active.

    Ted :)  

  10. # Blogger Ted Patrick

    As for software/currency pricing, this is a nasty problem. Software companies must lock down a price for software against constantly fluctuating currencies world-wide at prices that will be acceptable long term (2-3 years). Additionally business costs in certain markets are wildly different, sometimes as much as 5X per employee (India/Romainia/US/Japan).

    I wish Adobe could keep the software pricing level globally but this assumes currency levels, local costs, employee costs, and taxation globally would stay constant ignoring inflation/deflation effects. It is a hard problem that no software company has yet solved. The current preferred solution is to disproportionately price software globally vs keeping software prices in a constant state of fluctuation globally.

    From the consumer point of view the problem sucks, what else can I say.

    my humble 2 cents!

    Ted :)  

  11. # Blogger Beau Scott

    Thanks for the info Ted!


    And regarding FDT... Hm. More money than FB2 or 3 and no MXML support? Granted there are a few features in it that I've been begging for (code formatting, code gen for getters/setters) but I don't know if that warrants a $100 increase...

    Beau  

  12. # Anonymous Anonymous

    Ted,

    I would rather like to be able to purchase any (US English language) Adobe Software as a download package online for the US$ price with support from the US office.

    It's beyond my understanding why I am not allowed to do so and am forced to buy a much more expensive package (upgrading to CS3 felt like a ripp-off) for 'extra's' I don't need or even want.

    You wrote: "Software companies must lock down a price for software against constantly fluctuating currencies world-wide at prices that will be acceptable long term (2-3 years)."

    An idea would be that Adobe sells all their software packages (through an international portal?) at a fixed US$ price and add a live currency convertion that will show the (approx) price in the customers local currency.

    Besides that I don't get why the non US$ prices needs to be fixed?
    There are so many products on e.g. the Dutch market that constantly go up or down because of change in the US$ currency. Why wouldn't this be okay for software packages too?  

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