Awarded the
“Rodinstar” Post
of the week!!
Above is the screenshot of what you see when you mouse-over on the Products link on Adobe website. Did you notice something unusual ?
I see something I never expected to see in my lifetime. Flash is missing. Well, it is there listed somewhere on the products page itself. But It is no longer part of the Main-course at Adobe.
As an Entrepreneur who has built his career around Flash Platform this probably means end of story.
Time and again in my career I was asked this question that ‘What if Flash ends’ and I would mostly just laugh it off.
Well it is happening. Although Flash is not dead , from being an answer to all problems – multiple screens , different browsers, different devices, front end for Enterprise Applications [flex ,Nothing yet anywhere close to what Flex can deliver] to it being limited to a platform to deliver engaging Games. Ironically I started my career with flash 12 years ago launching a Game development course 🙂
I might not agree to the why and what behind what Adobe did. But I can certainly relate to it as an Entrepreneur. The company is answerable to its investors , to its shareholders and to its users itself. They gave Flash Platform everything they had , it probably did not bring the numbers and someone decided to change the Game.
The announcement of making flex open-source in November 2011 sent shockwaves throughout the community. As a company in short span of time I lost over 25 employees and suddenly from being proud of my ability to retain talent , I was facing a resignation mail every other day at work. Of course cannot blame everything to the announcement. I did not have answers or explanations to people who were leaving.
It was time to face the reality. I stopped living in denial and started looking at things as is. Although in terms of assignment there has never been shortage of work in flash or flex But that was not enough for me to maintain the status quo.
With the team that is left – we open our mind to new opportunities in front of us. Adobe had started focusing on new products and new segments. Once again as an entrepreneur I put everything on table and invested heavily on building skill-sets around these new opportunities.
After all every other institute taught flash, what made the difference is how we did it at Tekno Point. And customers continued to believe in us , HTML 5 became the most popular course that Tekno Point offers. This gave me lot of confidence.
So here I am ,starting yet again. Today we launched our new website – www.teknopoint.in . You will find many new offerings. Specially one of the course that I have personally started delivering – CompTIA CTT+ certifcation course. It is a train the trainer course which will help me to generate more trainers in the ecosystem – my biggest limitation to scale Tekno Point.
Rodinhoods is the place I first wanted to share this announcement of new website with. For rest of the world it is going to be just new look , new navigation etc. But my friends here will know and understand – Its a Resurrection.
Reminds me of what Daniel Craig says in Skyfall when asked ” Whats your hobby” and he replies “Resurrection”.
I will Survive.
Addendum [ Copy paste of my comment as I think it is important ]
Folks at Adobe have been extremely helpful and supportive in taking us through the transition. Do not feel abandoned 🙂 Happy to continue my journey with them.