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New Flex Builder 3 Packaging and Pricing

October 23rd, 2007 by Ryan Stewart

Along with the recent Flex Builder 3 public beta 2 release Adobe recently announcing the new packaging and pricing for Flex Builder 3.

Adobe Flex™ Builder™ 3 Standard Edition - $249
Adobe Flex™ Builder™ 3 Professional Edition $699

Flex Builder 3 Professional Edition adds the following feature:

  • Data visualization and charting components
  • Memory and performance profilers
  • Flex test automation framework

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

New Flex Builder 2 Pricing

Starting on November 1, 2007, Adobe will be re-pricing Flex Builder 2 to align with the new Flex Builder 3 pricing, so you will be able to purchase Flex Builder 2 for only $249 US and Flex Builder 2 with Charting for only $699 US.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007 at 1:21 pm and is filed under Flex.

23 Responses to “New Flex Builder 3 Packaging and Pricing”

  1. On October 23rd, 2007 at 4:16 pm, pan69 wrote:

    Is this release for Windows, OSX and Linux?

  2. On October 23rd, 2007 at 4:18 pm, Ryan Stewart wrote:

    Right now we have a version for Mac and Windows. The Linux version is currently in Alpha and we haven’t announced pricing for it yet.

  3. On October 23rd, 2007 at 5:05 pm, Geof Harries wrote:

    Big thumbs up on the tiered pricing.

  4. On October 23rd, 2007 at 5:13 pm, fb2user wrote:

    Its extremely disappointing there is not a upgrade price for
    FB2 to FB3. It seems a bit rich to be asking for another 700 USD each time flex has an upgrade. Its very expensive.
    FWIW. I doubt you’d sell many Linux licenses with this pricing structure.

  5. On October 23rd, 2007 at 5:33 pm, anon wrote:

    What! there is no FB2 to FB3 Upgrade pricing ??

    If I have to shell out 700 to get FB3 when I already have FB2, I might as well invest in Visual Studio and focus on Silverlight!!

  6. On October 23rd, 2007 at 5:34 pm, ryanstewart wrote:

    Hey all, I just sent a message to people in the know about upgrade pricing options. I’ll report back as soon as I have something.

  7. On October 23rd, 2007 at 6:15 pm, ryanstewart wrote:

    Hey guys, I just updated the post with some upgrade information. The “standard” upgrade is $99 and the “professional” upgrade is $299.

    Thanks for commenting as it helped me get the info that much faster.

  8. On October 23rd, 2007 at 6:21 pm, anon wrote:

    sweet…all is good in the world again!

  9. On October 23rd, 2007 at 10:12 pm, Ryan wrote:

    If we have FB2 with Charting, but don’t want to upgrade to the $299 FB3 Pro, is there an upgrade to FB3? If 2 to 3 is $99, then would 2+ charting go to 3 for free? Or is the solution to pay $99 to go from 2 to 3 and then to hawk our Charting for 2 to someone who isn’t going to upgrade to 3 but wants charting?

    Its kind of too bad that the FB2 w/charting that cost $750 can’t be upgraded for free to the FB3 Pro (only $699). After all, one wants to try out AIR (FB3) without having to spend $99 and then having to maintain 2 code bases (versus spending $300 for a full upgrade to 3 Pro).

    Does this make any sense?

  10. On October 24th, 2007 at 1:13 am, Lordy wrote:

    Excellent stuff, nice to see there is an upgrade option for flex builder 2 with charting, can’t wait to get my hands on advanced data grid!
    Thanks

  11. On October 24th, 2007 at 2:01 am, FLEX{er} » Blog Archive » New Flex Builder pricing wrote:

    [...] New Flex Builder 3 packaging and pricing Tags: flex builder, price, product This post was written by webdev.andrei [...]

  12. On October 24th, 2007 at 2:05 am, savvasmalamas wrote:

    It’s nice even if I gave $1310 USD (920 euro).
    I know it’s a bit early but i wonder what the price and the package (stand-alone?) will be for Thermo..

  13. On October 24th, 2007 at 5:33 am, BIT-101 Blog » Blog Archive » Free Flex Builder 2 wrote:

    [...] if the reduced pricing on Flex Builder 3, and the $99 upgrade wasn’t enough, now students and educational faculty can get Flex Builder 2, free of [...]

  14. On October 24th, 2007 at 6:18 am, David wrote:

    I am happy to see the standard for $249. I am considering using Flex for web apps development. Also, looking forward to AIR for Linux.

  15. On October 24th, 2007 at 9:49 am, ryanstewart wrote:

    Hey Ryan, if you want to upgrade from Flex Builder 2 w/ Charting to Flex Builder 3, you’d just need to pay the $99.

  16. On October 24th, 2007 at 3:19 pm, donarb wrote:

    New pricing? For a second there, I thought the prices had changed again. Ted Patrick posted this on his blog 3 weeks ago.

    http://www.onflex.org/ted/2007/10/flex-3-beta-2-lower-price-flex-builder.php

  17. On October 24th, 2007 at 3:21 pm, ryanstewart wrote:

    Yup, but it starts November 1st so we wanted to let people know closer to the date in addition to the original news on Ted’s post.

  18. On October 24th, 2007 at 4:44 pm, Michael wrote:

    If I buy FB2 now, do I get a free upgrade to FB3? I need to buy a few copies, but I’m not going to buy it until it’s free to upgrade or released.

  19. On October 24th, 2007 at 7:06 pm, jordan wrote:

    so if i bought flex builder 2.01 on monday (like i did)…. for 499… what happens?

  20. On October 25th, 2007 at 8:43 am, Code is Lyric » Blog Archive » Flexbuilder für Studenten kostenlos wrote:

    [...] gestern hat Adobe die (US-) Preise für Flex Builder 3 bekannt gegeben. Sehr erfreulich ist, dass die künftige Einsteigerversion deutlich billiger sein wird als bisher: [...]

  21. On November 1st, 2007 at 2:59 am, FlashGen.Com .: blog :. » Flex Builder 2 New pricing wrote:

    [...] From Ryan Stewart’s post: [...]

  22. On November 6th, 2007 at 4:48 am, Comunidade Portuguesa de Rich Internet Applications» Blog Archive » Adobe Flex Builder 2 gratuíto (e já disponível!) para estudantes wrote:

    [...] os novos preços do Flex Builder 3: $249, a versão Standart e $699 a versão Professional (ver aqui). Dias depois tivemos então o anúncio de que o Flex Builder 2 (com os charting componentes!) [...]

  23. On November 7th, 2007 at 4:56 pm, RA Murphy wrote:

    Has there been a delay on the new pricing, or am I looking in the wrong place? It’s a week past the November 1 change date but the pricing looks the same as before on the Adobe site. Any explanation available???

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