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

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At 11.38 -0700 2000.06.16, Wayne Townsend wrote:


[I, Kenny, wrote:]


>>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.


Coming from you, Wayne, this has to be comedy schtick, right?


BTW it's Kenny, not Ken.


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

>out there in the trenches,


I call it the Macromedia-Induced-Ozone.


>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).


BTW, MM, *THANKS* for the Dev Kit. Reallyreallyreallyreallyreally.


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


'cuz they hired OUTSIDERS.


Bet they knew it from the get-go.


>What  message does *that* send to our clients?


A big "DUH".


>Does MM not believe in their own technology?


A rhetorical Q, right?


>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.


Beg me, first! :-)


>I want to show you a preview of what I've just pulled off with Flash 

>& Flamethrower server app scripting.


Ya got my eaddy; ya coulda done it already; want a Special Invitation?


Just in case:


<down on knees>


"Please, Wayne, Please!"


Happy now?


Ever the Kenny


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