Most people, even techie ones, have a very limited view of what Flash can do. If you spend the time, most folks are surprised with the depth of the Flash development environment and start to see what you can do when you step beyond the basic animation and moving stuff around.
I work on highly technical, interactive simulation for the medical industry. My apps are built mostly in Flash, with.Net backends that are highly interactive exercises that teach cardiologists to analyze the latest medical imagery and improve their real-world skills.
These programs are light-years beyond most people's perception of flash. If you don't close your mind to the possibilities, Flash is an incredible development tool and let's my company do things that would not be possible with any other technology. Perfectly cross platform (and face it, Linux doesn't matter to most people), interactive, pretty easy data transfer, reusable GUIs via XML data storage, etc. Flash is near perfect for alot more than just tweening text.
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Most people, even techie ones, have a very limited view of what Flash can do. If you spend the time, most folks are surprised with the depth of the Flash development environment and start to see what you can do when you step beyond the basic animation and moving stuff around. I work on highly technical, interactive simulation for the medical industry. My apps are built mostly in Flash, with .Net backends that are highly interactive exercises that teach cardiologists to analyze the latest medical imagery and improve their real-world skills.
These programs are light-years beyond most people's perception of flash. If you don't close your mind to the possibilities, Flash is an incredible development tool and let's my company do things that would not be possible with any other technology. Perfectly cross platform (and face it, Linux doesn't matter to most people), interactive, pretty easy data transfer, reusable GUIs via XML data storage, etc. Flash is near perfect for alot more than just tweening text.