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I'm sure they're just resentful that someone is "forcing them" to rewrite what they perceive to be a fully-functional product "for no reason". And to be fair, that sentiment is by no means rare; that's why there are still COBOL programmers, after all, and to a lesser extent, "enterprise" OS distributions.

Take into consideration that while the bare functionality of Flash has been "replaced" by HTML 5, there is nothing that really comes close to actually replacing Flash the IDE, especially not in a way that Flash developers find amenable. I've been working with a group to convert a Flash game to HTML 5, and, to put it lightly, it's a massive mess. There is currently no clear migration path. The market is really lacking there.

Even Adobe has given up on pretending like Flash is a solution for applications now; the IDE has been renamed "Animate".

In any case, FedEx is pitting itself against Google and the web community in a way I doubt they really understand. Whichever upper-mid-level manager green-lighted this is pretty naive.