A new pricing was announced for Flex Builder 2 which becomes effective 1st November. Flex Builder 2 without charting currently costs $499.99 at Amazon, its new price starting 1st November 2007 will be $249.99 (that is gonna be a saving of $250!!! ) yoo hoo!
Flex Builder 2 with Charting will become $100 cheaper to $699, rather than the $799 sold now.

Besides if you buy a support plan for Flex 2 - which costs $99. Then you will get a free upgrade for Flex Builder 3, whenever it comes out.

Flex Builder 3 will be sold in two versions - Standard ($250) and Professional ($700). The Professional version will contain Charting, Advanced Data Grid and other advanced visualization stuff.

Update on upgrade pricing:

* Flex Builder 2 to Flex Builder 3 Standard Upgrade - $99 US
* Flex Builder 2 with Charting to Flex Builder 3 Professional Upgrade - $299 US
* Trade-up from FB Standard to FB Professional - $499 US

Today (Day 2 of Adobe MAX 2007) FlexBuilder for Linux was announced! Woot! Woot! You can download it from: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flex/flexbuilder_linux/

Though its an Alpha version, it is still a great news for a Linux lover like-me! too cool!

It is a stripped down version of FlexBuilder for Windows and Mac. But it will get there I guess.
This release of Flex Builder Linux requires Sun JRE 1.5.x and Eclipse 3.3 and supports the following distributions:

* SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 (x86 32-bit version)
* RedHat Enterprise Linux WS 4 (x86 32-bit version)
* Ubuntu 7.0.4 (Feisty) (x86 32-bit version)

I’m trying to write out my max blogging but I’m just too sleepy right now, and then I have to TA a session in the morning. … I just dozed off on the keyboard! I guess I will finish of the max blogging tomorrow! Sorry!

I’m sorry for the delay in getting the snaps out today for the day. It was meeting up with new people all day long at MAX, and so …. anyways here goes. The morning began with a sumptuous breakfast, here are the snaps:

4000+ at your breakfast table

Yo! That’s me and Rupesh

That’s my breakfast!

The pretty ladies are Sumi Lim (Developer Relations, EMEA) and Michele Turner (VP, Marketing). And the person in the middle is a Product Manager in the AIR team - I don’t remember his name.

Craig Goodman (Devnet now ADC!), John Koch and Sanjeev Kumar (Developer, Coldfusion team).

John Koch (Asia Developer Relations manager), Me (Evangelist Asia Pacific) and Mrinal Wadhwa (SAP India, one of the key member of flex-india group).

That is pretty much the entire Adobe Consulting team. (You can see Matt Voerman, Peter Martin right in the back and middle).

I guess my blog yesterday is getting people to the Developer lab for goodies.

Early morning selling at MAX store.

I didn’t have dinner coupons for the speaker (not speaking this time)/ community dinner (how can they forget me?) … so had to go out with friends for dinner.

The MAX after hours were play time with XBOX 360s and Nintendo Wiis in the After Hour Lounges, check out some snaps:

So what is common to Adobe DevNet and Indian Railways - both are critiqued by Amy Wong and Craig Goodman.

Adobe MAX 2007 [Day 0] EOD: Halo 3 - Geeks kick ass! After Hours Lounge its party time. Its TomJ (Tom Jordhal) from the ColdFusion team in the foreground.

Halo 3! Halo 3! - my first exposure to it. Michele wanted to know how to stop her boys from playing the game, while she was herself trying her hand at it.

Michele Turner becomes G.I. Jane in her avatar playing Halo 3 in the MAX After Hour Lounge!

Tom Jordhal beat me 5 vs 4 in Halo 3. Boo hoo!

Time to hit the bed… Another exciting day lined up for tomorrow!