Adobe Offers Flex Builder 2 Free to Educational Institutions

In a move designed to set Flex up as the technology to build rich internet applications, Adobe today announced that starting in November, they will be 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.

Getting whole classes of students to be familiar with and programming in Flex is one element that will help to further spread the already developing technology. As quoted by Yaakov Fain, Adjunct Professor at New York University and a well-known speaker and blogger, in the Yahoo news article, "People with Adobe Flex skills are already in big demand in the industry, and this smart move will help to substantially increase the number of Flex-enabled college graduates. We are pleased to be among the first universities to offer this kind of coursework to our students."

Adobe Flex 2 will be available to qualified education end-users for free download on Adobe.com in early November.

Adobe Advances Web 2.0 in Education

• Subscribe
• RSS

• Editorial
• Specials
• Community
• News
• Tech and Tags
• Views
• Reviews
• Techniques
• Security
• Best of ColdFusion Talk
• Knowledge Base
• Blog Watch

• Tipical Charlie