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Macromedia Central: A Complete Failure?

It's been out for years now. Guess what, on the official central page, you can chose from a vast array of 22 central applications now (including the ones Macromedia released back in 2003), the last of which was made available over a year ago. This represents a total of 12 people who bought into the whole Central develpment thing. For a company as big as Macromedia, that is beyond sad. It's almost laughable. But, it's not suprising. I told you this would happen. Will Apollo fair any better? We'll just have to wait and see if they have a better licensing model this time around.

[1] http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/central/index.cfm#loc=en_us&view=appfinder&viewName=Application%20Finder&avm=1

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mike chambers said:

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We'll just have to wait and see if they have a better licensing model this time around.

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fyi

Is Apollo free (as in beer)?

http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Apollo:developerfaq#Is_Apollo_free_.28as_in_beer.29.3F

mike chambers

mesh@adobe.com

# October 6, 2006 7:51 PM

Jesse Ezell said:

From your link:

"We have taken a number of the lessons learned from Central (what worked, what didn't work) into consideration when designing the Apollo feature set."

It would be interested to hear what those lessons are :). Is there an apollo blog out there somewhere?

# October 6, 2006 8:17 PM

mike chambers said:

Best resource on Apollo info right now is the wiki on labs:

http://www.adobe.com/go/apollowiki

You can also check out my weblog for some info (some decent info in the podcasts).

http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mesh/

Lots more info in the next couple of weeks.

mike chambers

mesh@adobe.com

# October 8, 2006 11:24 PM
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