Free Flex For All . . . well almost

Thanks to Chris Cantrell’s blog I learned this morning that Macromedia is giving free FLEX licenses to non-profits, students, teachers, and anyone else who will use FLEX in a non-commercial environment.

Not only do you get a free FLEX license but you also get a free license for the Macromedia Flex Builder which is the Macromedia IDE for Flex.

Check out the FLEX FAQ for more details

Not too shabby! Now if we can just convince Macromedia to give free licenses for older versions of ColdFusion to anyone (including those profit welding businesses) we’d be set.

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Harry Fuecks

Harry has been working in corporate IT since 1994, with everything from start-ups to Fortune 100 companies. Outside of office hours he runs phpPatterns: a site dedicated to software design with PHP that aims to raise standards of PHP development. He also maintains Dynamically Typed: SitePoint's PHP blog.

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Steve R. October 15, 2004 at 9:57 am: See also http://www.bindows.net/ for another alternative.
qtstorm October 12, 2004 at 7:21 pm: Laszlo is my new best friend. :) . I was hoping. No praying. No hoping and praying for this. Thanks for the link Andy
z0s0 October 5, 2004 at 6:41 pm: Welding is quite a profitable industry ;-)
Andy Jarrett October 5, 2004 at 1:13 pm: The other contender in the RIA arena is also open source now as of today. Check out http://www.laszlosystems.com/company/news/press_releases/pr_oct_04.php
Adedeji Olowe October 5, 2004 at 12:29 pm: I see more than a light.
But will there be a free Flex Certification or curiculum in the schools???
neves October 5, 2004 at 10:54 am: Now I can see a light for Flex!