Adobe Flex Builder Is Free for Students and Faculty

Adobe make a move to attract academia's attention to Flex

Oct. 24, 2007 10:00 AM

Adobe has announced that it is offering Adobe® Flex™ Builder™ 2 software at no cost to students and faculty at educational institutions worldwide. This is a great decision, and I'll be happy to spread the news to my students at New York University. Tomorrow, I will be starting my third class on Flex 2 at NYU.

During the past 10 years, free Java has become the main programming language in every college in the U.S. Now Adobe's Flex Builder will complement the Eclipse IDE that is already installed on most of the CS/IS students' PCs. In a couple of years these students will join the workforce armed with both Flex and Java skills, which will definitely help with their employability. Now, the pool of Flex developers will start growing faster.

More than a year ago, in this blog I suggested that Adobe should have given Flex away for free to students. I'm sure I was not the only one who wanted a free Flex Builder, and now it's a done deal. You can register for your free license over here.

Next week expect more news from Adobe in this regard.

Published Oct. 24, 2007— Reads 13,530
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About Yakov Fain
Yakov Fain is a Managing Director of Farata Systems, consulting, training and product company. He has authored several Java books, dozens of technical articles. SYS-CON Books released his latest co-authored book , Rich Internet Applications with Adobe Flex and Java: Secrets of the Masters in Spring 2007. Sun Microsystems has nominated and awarded Yakov with the title Java Champion. He leads the Princeton Java Users Group. He is an Adobe Certified Flex Instructor. Yakov co-athored the O'Reilly book "Enterprise Application Development with Flex". He twits at twitter.com/yfain.

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