Adobe FormsCentral RoadMap/Life Expectancy - Planning for Critical Business Use

Adobe FormsCentral is quite a nice little interface to use, however my worries lie in it functionality for businesses that may try to rely on it to record critical day to day movements.
I plan to commit some time to building such tools and love the ease of use with FormsCentral but I worry that what we have may be all we can expect because it is essentially built with a dying IP... Flash...
I would love to see a feature roadmap in order for me to make a stronger commitment to Adobe vs Formstack - I would eventually have 35+ users in one building alone subscribing to adobe but Formstack seems to be the way to go (viewing results on both iOS and Android devices etc).
Is there a roadmap to at least guarantee the life expectancy of Forms Central?
Is there something more concrete we can look forward to as far as mobile technology goes?
Our business operates on a mixture of both Apple and Microsoft machines and iOS/Android mobile devices - Me, I have more OS X/iOS device than i do windows/android.
If I had of known about Formstack, I probably would've gone with that before he adobe product as the features are more promising - Any feedback would be great!
Thanks!!!

Hi Colin,
We'll try and answer your technology and roadmap questions
the best we can, but as you probably already know, as a corporate
policy, Adobe does not publicly disclose timing, dates, etc.
If you have specific questions regarding scaling, features,
etc. (such as the topic on recordings which was posted a little
while back), let us know.
Regards,
Fang

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I cheecked (without changing anything) that the values for date and quote vaue were sensible -they were.
Then I retyped the data for date and quote value. I retyped exactly the same values that were there before.
Bingo - now the analysis shows the correct amnounts."
I suspect that the previous change you mentioned may have altered the Date and Time value (the 'date value' you name) into something Numbers did not recognize as a Date and Time value when the column was reformatted to Date and Time, show date only. Retyping "exactly the same value as was there" displayed would remove any extraneous bits, permitting recognition as (the date part of) a Date and Time value, and allowing Numbers to recognize the row as one that should be included in the SUMIF. The case might be similar for the quote value in that row, although I think this would be less likely. If you changed both before checking the result of that change, there's little chance of discovering what caused the amount to be disregarded in the calculations.
"There are a few dozen analysis sheets many with lots of instances of some quiet complex formulae, Numbers is creaking at the seams, it takes 30 seconds just to open the file."
Numbers is not speedy, particularly with quite complex formulas (and many of them). Part of the issue in Numbers '08 and '09 is that every change in a table triggers a recalculation of the whole table. That issue has been at least partially addressed in Numbers 3, where the recalculation appears to not extend to the full tableeach time there's a change, but to only th cells affected by the change.
"...Excel is so well established and in common use that I guess it can't be that bad any more.....can it?"
Excel has been "well established and in common use" for many years now. That alone, though, can't be relied upon as definitive evidence that "it can't be bad;" only that many copies of it have been sold and installed, many people use it, and files saved in a format it can open can be opened and read by many people. Whether it's "good" or "bad" (or should be described in more emphatic terms toward either end of this range) depends on the user, her purpose in using it, and how well that user feels it fits that purpose. (My personal take on it is that Excel does the jobs I've used it for well, but that I have used it infrequently enough that I have not learned where things (text size, data formatting, etc.) are found.
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Message Edited by pBerg on 05-02-2008 01:09 PM
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