Basically, the moves to make the compiler free and to keep the IDE reasonably priced are *great* and will no doubt attract a huge influx of new developers.

Having given it further thought, I guess that regardless of what the pricing for Enterprise Services ends up being, the first two decisions will bring in a large number of developers. And if Flex Enterprise Services (FES) is priced out of reach, we can still build very competent applications using plain old Flash Remoting and frameworks such as Arp and Cairngorm.

I do hope that AS3 remoting classes will be supplied as part of the framework and won’t be limited to FES.

From what I’ve heard, there will be several pricing options for FES and I’ve gotten some very strong assurances that Adobe will be “doing the right thing” with regards to pricing so I guess all we can do is wait until there is an official announcement regarding FES pricing.

I have to say that I’m very excited about Flex 2 in general and I truly cannot wait for Flex to become mainstream as it is such a joy to work with.

Dodgy salesman: “Here’s your new dream sports car Mr Important VP1, yes that perfectly reasonable wad of cash will cover it”
Important VP1: “Great! its amazing! I love it! Its everything I need… now can I have the keys?”
Dodgy salesman: “Keys? oh no they’re not part of the deal…”

We will be offering a version of Flex Enterprise Services for free as well. That version will be limited by number of concurrent users, and will not allow clustering.