Wednesday, June 4, 2008
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
"Jeff D. confirms that Saffron has been bought by Microsoft and will no longer be released as an AS3/air app. Sam is currently working with Microsoft engineers to move the code base over to WPF/Silverlight with a view to a release in Q1 next year as an online app available as part of the Visual Studio package. April 23"
Hmm... Sam's website is down for maintenance, and the digg references a journal entry from 2/19/2008 -- which doesn't currently exist anymore.
So there is no way to actually prove any of this is real. There hasn't been any news in a long time. So it has the ring of truth in it (acquired), or perhaps Sam is putting out all the stops in regards to getting ready for a release so many are eager for.
If Microsoft did acquire this, congrats Sam. Although it pains me to see this beauty deployed in anything but an AS3 AIR application.
12 Comments:
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Joel said...
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“When I first read this comment on the LoI blog, it stated first quarter 2013, or something like that. It was a joke.
Or maybe not!” -
Dominick Accattato said...
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“I highly doubt that Sam would do that. He's probably heads down in dev right now ;)”
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Steve said...
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“Are you kidding me? They plan to strip all the code and spend half a year porting the whole thing over to WPF?
Man, how hard is it to just get a nice, free UML modeler tool?
Looks like I'll be sticking with gmodeler for a while.” -
ben.clinkinbeard said...
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“Pretty sure we were supposed to get access to a Saffron beta at 360Flex in Seattle last August. If it were to get ported I think 2013 would be about right.”
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Jason MacDonald said...
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“People need to stop over reacting to stupid rumors. A simple look at Samuels Twitter feed would tell you he's still working on Saffron (FOR FLASH!) and just working on bugs for a beta release. He even says it will be released soon but he has 76 bugs to sort through first!.
http://twitter.com/SamuelAgesilas” -
mkeefe said...
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“I agree with Jason, Sam's twitter feed does indeed mention various advances in the Saffron development. Also, I did a little Google searching and found that DIGG article is craftily linking to the original Saffron entry that was post after FITC Amsterdam. just an fyi.”
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Stray said...
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“Has anybody every seen anything except artwork in terms of saffron dev?
I'll be over the moon if Sam releases a Beta, and it all looks amazing in design terms. I'm just a bit confused by the lack of testing ... unless there has been an alpha and everybody is under NDA? But if even apple can't keep that sorta thing secret, I don't know how Saffron testers wouldn't have leaked at least a few details ...” -
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“Everyone just needs to hold on to their collective panties...we'll see what's in store, all in good time.”
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vinnie vivace said...
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“my panties have pretty much dropped to the floor at this point... anyone have an update?”
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Jensa said...
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“Hmmm... I'm also hoping for this to arrive, but his last post on the Twitter feed was one month ago:
"SamuelAgesilas: is thinking about his mothers biopsy results"
Sounds serious. I hope his mother is alright...
J”
