Flex 07 Feb 2008 11:14 am
Flex Builder 2 free for students and faculty at educational institutions worldwide
I’ve had several conversations over the last few weeks with customers who have advised me that Adobe should be giving away Flex Builder to students around the world. Well, last October we announced that we were doing this.
SAN JOSE, Calif. — October 24, 2007 — Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced that it is offering Adobe® Flex™ Builder™ 2 software at no cost to students and faculty at educational institutions worldwide. The Flex Builder 2 integrated development environment (IDE) is part of a powerful toolset for designing and developing rich Internet applications (RIAs), an essential part of Web 2.0.
on 07 Feb 2008 at 1:27 pm 1.Jason said …
Is there some kind of customer support available for the program? I signed up late last year (over two months ago) and I’m yet to hear anything.
I wasn’t sure I should risk re-submitting so as not to get disqualified or something. I’m taking website design this semester. I’d appreciate if you can let me know via my e-mail.
Thanks.
on 07 Feb 2008 at 2:13 pm 2.John said …
Same here.. although I did resubmit. I’m an instructor at UNLV’s Educational Outreach program and one of my students actually already got his, but I haven’t heard anything.
on 07 Feb 2008 at 2:13 pm 3.Alfio Raymond said …
Mike I submitted my info and within a week had the program and have enjoyed learning how to use it and following in what the blogs and forums have been talking about Flex. Looking forward to Flex 3 coming out. Just been working on samples to understand everything better.
on 07 Feb 2008 at 6:29 pm 4.Maxon said …
I applied for the FB2 student license a looong time ago, but haven’t heard anything from Adbobe since.
on 08 Feb 2008 at 8:45 am 5.Vyper said …
As a student myself I applied for this in December as was given a serial the next day. Brilliant service! Which is different to the Adobe exchange where it takes more than two weeks for your item to be approved…
on 08 Feb 2008 at 11:27 am 6.admin said …
Hi -
If you haven’t heard back from someone on this program please email me and provide your contact details. I’ll get someone to respond to you right away.
Thanks,
Mike
mdowney@adobe.com
on 08 Feb 2008 at 11:34 am 7.Chris Martinez said …
Still waiting for my requests to be fulfilled. I tried calling Adobe yesterday actually before reading this post. I was redirected from Flex pre-sales to Adobe Customer Service to Programmers Paradise and back to Adobe Customer Service. In the end, I still do not have any information regarding my request and was informed to wait the specified 2 weeks. I submitted last month (late January) after not hearing anything regarding my first request in November 2007!!
Adobe, what gives? I know that you may be swamped with requests, but some notification regarding the status of those requests would be great customer service instead of leaving people in the dark - just waiting. Thanks for letting me vent.
on 08 Feb 2008 at 12:17 pm 8.Mike Downey on Adobe » Flex training in higher education: we need your feedback said …
[...] been having a discussion internally about our program for Flex training in higher education. As I posted earlier, we recently started providing Flex Builder to students and faculty for free. What else can we do [...]
on 11 Feb 2008 at 4:04 pm 9.admin said …
@Chris Martinez: Sorry to hear that. Like I said, please email me directly with your contact info and I will get you taken care of.
mdowney@adobe.com
- Mike
on 25 Feb 2008 at 6:44 am 10.Joseph Labrecque said …
Now that Flex Builder 3 is out- what is the process for upgrading these free faculty licenses from FB2? I just submitted a license request and the serials I got were still FB2 serials… Can’t find any info on this.
Thanks for your time and congrats- stunning software!
on 25 Feb 2008 at 8:18 am 11.para kazan said …
thank you for article
on 15 Mar 2008 at 8:19 am 12.Daniel Freeman said …
I’m currently lecturing Computer Science in Beijing. The course is franchised and endorsed by an American college. (and taught in English, fortunately). I’ve been trying persuade them to let me put together a ActionScript3 / AIR course.
I’d like to register for this offer, on the off-chance they’ll allow me to teach such a course. As Joseph says, FB3 is out now. And my focus is AIR…
on 08 May 2008 at 7:08 am 13.Blogumdan said …
Thank you. Great blog..!
on 22 May 2008 at 10:11 am 14.grup hepsi resimleri said …
Hi Same here.. although I did resubmit. I’m an instructor at UNLV’s Educational Outreach program and one of my students actually already got his, but I haven’t heard anything…