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Yesterday's announcement wasn't exactly a surprise given the messaging that has been coming from Adobe recently, but what IS very surprising is that there was no contingency plan for business's that have been built on LCCS as part of the announcement.

Surely Adobe has plans to either:

a) Open Source LCCS, so that business's that have been created and invested in based on the availability of LCCS can host their own instances of the product

or

b) Give us some idea as to what the plans are for the code. Does Adobe have any offers for the LCCS business in the pipeline or are they interested in receiving offers?

Yes, I'm sure it is buried deep in the fine print of the service agreement that LCCS could be taken down with little or no notice, but it was positioned as a product that people could build businesses on. Simply hitting CTRL-A/Delete on the entire code base makes no sense for anyone, including Adobe.

I know there are alternative technologies out there, but a lot of people who built business on LCCS would at least like to have some option to continue using the product after the end of this year.

- Barry