I thought this article from InfoQ was worth bringing to your attention, as it was an interesting read for me, about the misconceptions Adobe come across when talking to people about Flex. We are currently a way down the path of getting one of our clients to embrace Flex, and then get the skills to build some things.

We recently did some extensive AJAX work in their application and had to make sure it degraded well, so that the same functions were available with out AJAX. If we had used Flex in this area, then there would have been no extra work to make the functions behave exactly as we needed.

In order to help the adoption of Flex, we have been running some Java script detection on the application to see how many of the users actually have Flash, if so is it v9 or later, if not is it later than v6 and so can be auto updated. Why? because this app operates within the tight SOE of banking and financial institutions.

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