Re: FLASH: OT?: MM?: New Macromedia.com site

[Wayne Townsend]

>Once again for MM, *Glitz and Glamour* win out over *Customer 

>Loyalty*. This is not the first time that MM has apparently chosen 

>"saving/puttingonapretty face" over *integrity*. JMO.

>

>Same old money-grubbing game that Adobe seems to be playing (and 

>winning big-time). MM has apparently decided to Raise on Adobe's 

>Call. Problem is, MM appears to be Bluffing, after sitting down at 

>the table so relatively recently! JMO again.

>

>I for one feel that this move by MM really really s*cks, and see 

>this as just another case of MM being greedy and not giving much of 

>a very big damn about US.



Oh, lighten up a bit Ken.  I'm not sure that is really the case.


The reason I am thumbs down on MM's new site is that here we are, out 

there in the trenches, advising our clients that they should build 

their site in Flash-4, for this reason and that.  And that html is 

over with.  (well, at least we are).


And here's MM *not* utilizing their star technology on their own 

site.  What  message does *that* send to our clients?  Does MM not 

believe in their own technology?


Is Flash so deeply positioned as an "animation tool" that its far 

more important abilities are of no consequence?


Flash4 is *not* just an animation tool.  It streams and it has 

**scripting**.  It allows you to build intelligent web pages that can 

think for themselves, and take a load off the servers, without having 

to resort to dogs like JS and Java.


</rant>


Hey Ken, write me.  I want to show you a preview of what I've just 

pulled off with Flash & Flamethrower server app scripting.


ATB,


/w


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