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February 27, 2009

When the economy is down, do you still believe?

Jason Calacanis has a great blog up:
What to do if your startup is about fail (or “Don’t Stop Believing”)

And as I read all the way to the end of it (been there done that), I agreed with almost everything he said.

Especially longevity.

However, it's worth noting at no point does he challenge your business model. And rightly so. Your business model better be ingrained into your DNA. And transferred by oath of fealty to every employee. Start there. Can your employees discuss your business model with you or their co-workers?

Bottom line, it's all about the business. And there is no one business model that's right for every opportunity.

Including in Open Source.

I've gone on rants before at smart people when they talk about "The Open Source Business Model". There isn't any such thing. There are lots of business models that are supported, accelerated, supportive of open source technologies. But no holy grail. No perfect plan.

So recognize that open soucre is a tactic (marketing, licensing, development, community, etc).

And make sure you know your strategy.

Posted by Dave McAllister at 09:32 AM | | Comments (1)

February 18, 2009

Twittering on @ Adobe

If you haven't already seen this, There's a grat list of twitter accounts representing Adobe available on Serge Jespers site Life as an Adobe Evangelist.

Jump in .

And I'm dwmcallister on that list.

Posted by Dave McAllister at 09:05 AM | | Comments (0)

February 13, 2009

The effect is in, FX is out

well, let it be said that Adobe listens.

Over the past few weeks, we've held a virtual summit attended by the Flex community. we held the first of the series of Open Iteration Meetings. We reviewed and opened the discussion on the favorite topic to hate.

and now, working with the active and well spoken input from the community, Matt Chotin announced today that the FX prefix is no more.


Matt's entry asks for a bit of patience, so we can focus on this AND ask for your input.

And we think this is a strong indication of the power of community to help build a stronger product.


Posted by Dave McAllister at 12:31 PM | | Comments (1)