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January 31, 2006
Free Flex Framework SDK
Tomorrow we will be releasing Beta 1 of the Flex 2 Product lLne, which includes Flex Builder, the Flex Framework and Flex Enterprise Services. You'll be able to download it at from http://labs.adobe.com. As part of that, we're announcing some very important changes to the way we license Flex.One of the big changes we're making is that the Flex Framework, which includes everything you need to build Flex Apps, such as the Framework and command line compilers, will be available for free. Not just for beta, but for good! I think that this is going to be huge and really open up developing apps for the Flash Platform to a much wider range of developers.
When we first started developing Flex 2, one of our main goals was to make Flex and Flash development available to a much wider range of developers than we have previously. Putting the Flex Framework into Flex Builder was the first step, but we wanted to go further. With very public apps such as Yahoo Maps being developed in Flex, we wanted to make sure that everyone who was inspired by them had the opportunity to extend them or create their own cool apps, and we didn't want price to be a barrier.
The SDK isn't yet available, as we just finalized the decision on making it available. We've been heads down finishing the Beta so all of this is happening quckly. We do hope to make it available in the near future.
Posted by Mark Anders at January 31, 2006 03:32 PM