http://jochem.vandieten.net/2008/11/21/max-2008-highlights-and-random-thoughts/ Jochem's tech exploits Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:57:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://jochem.vandieten.net/2008/11/21/max-2008-highlights-and-random-thoughts/comment-page-1/#comment-246 Roy Feague Mon, 04 May 2009 22:31:55 +0000 http://jochem.vandieten.net/2008/11/21/max-2008-highlights-and-random-thoughts/#comment-246 Adobe's ongoing ambivalence about Designer is apparent and very frustrating. Now there's MARS, yet another file format, this time an XML expression of PDF. Sounds like XDP, right? I find the instability of Designer incredibly frustrating. I have never seen a shipping product from a major software company crash so often. Importing Fragments in the new version crashed about 50% of the time. I sure wish Adobe would either up the commitment to Designer and Livecycle, or give it a dignified death. Adobe’s ongoing ambivalence about Designer is apparent and very frustrating. Now there’s MARS, yet another file format, this time an XML expression of PDF. Sounds like XDP, right?
I find the instability of Designer incredibly frustrating. I have never seen a shipping product from a major software company crash so often. Importing Fragments in the new version crashed about 50% of the time. I sure wish Adobe would either up the commitment to Designer and Livecycle, or give it a dignified death.

]]> http://jochem.vandieten.net/2008/11/21/max-2008-highlights-and-random-thoughts/comment-page-1/#comment-73 Jochem Sat, 22 Nov 2008 17:45:05 +0000 http://jochem.vandieten.net/2008/11/21/max-2008-highlights-and-random-thoughts/#comment-73 Sure you can run CF on the cloud with the current licensing. Just buy a CF Enterprise license for sufficient cores and you will be fine. But the differentiating factor on the cloud is the pay-by-usage model where you can dynamically scale the number of instances and just pay for the number of instances that you actually use. And Adobe does not provide a licensing model where we just pay for the number of instance-hours we keep instances running. This issue came up during the "Meet the Team" session on Monday at MAX and there were a lot more people interested to whom <a href="http://www.webbschofield.com/" rel="nofollow">Kristen</a> told there was no licensing model available fitting the pay-by-usage model of the cloud. (Although I know about at least one special licensing agreement between Adobe and a CF customer allowing a usage based payment model.) Sure you can run CF on the cloud with the current licensing. Just buy a CF Enterprise license for sufficient cores and you will be fine. But the differentiating factor on the cloud is the pay-by-usage model where you can dynamically scale the number of instances and just pay for the number of instances that you actually use. And Adobe does not provide a licensing model where we just pay for the number of instance-hours we keep instances running.
This issue came up during the “Meet the Team” session on Monday at MAX and there were a lot more people interested to whom Kristen told there was no licensing model available fitting the pay-by-usage model of the cloud. (Although I know about at least one special licensing agreement between Adobe and a CF customer allowing a usage based payment model.)

]]> http://jochem.vandieten.net/2008/11/21/max-2008-highlights-and-random-thoughts/comment-page-1/#comment-72 Henry Ho Fri, 21 Nov 2008 02:01:29 +0000 http://jochem.vandieten.net/2008/11/21/max-2008-highlights-and-random-thoughts/#comment-72 Cloud Computing? http://john.beynon.org.uk/2008/11/20/staxnet-brings-cf-to-the-cloud/ Cloud Computing?
http://john.beynon.org.uk/2008/11/20/staxnet-brings-cf-to-the-cloud/

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