With all due respect, Adam, I think that is the most
ridiculous comment I've ever heard you make in public. Have you been
drinking?
If Adobe ever washes its hands of ColdFusion, I hereby
publicly pledge to buy you and your family dinner at the most expensive
restaurant you can find in Atlanta. You mention relatively soon, how about we
bet dinner that it doesn't happen within 3 years. If by Christmas, 2009
ColdFusion Enterprise is not released as open source and Adobe has clearly not
washed their hands of it, then you owe me and my family dinner? My offer stands,
whether or not you accept the bet.
Here's three points I'd like to make.
1) Adobe is not going to wash their hands of
ColdFusion. Do you think they are going to wash their hands of Acrobat as
well? Do you know how much money they've been losing on the high-end, Java base
LiveCycle product lines for years, yet Bruce Chizen just moved that group
to brand new, state of the art digs reinvesting even more into that effort.
Acrobat itself was a money loser for half a decade before it became the most
lucrative product line in Adobe's portfolio, surpassing PostScript and
Photoshop. Adobe is used to making long-term investments, and the purchase of
Macromedia/Allaire/eHelp by them is one of the best things that could have
happened for tech junkies like me. Even eHelp products are seeing renewed
investment, which even surprised me a bit. ColdFusion is so core to what Adobe
is doing that any doubt about it's future is so clearly misdirected as to be
humorous.
2) Adobe does not kill products, especially not core
technology like ColdFusion. I even heard rumors that there is relevant code from
LiveMotion (an early Flash competitor that Adobe extensible killed long ago, for
those of you who haven't heard of it) that they can now roll into Flash. Adobe
plays long-term chess games strategically. This was a strategic move. Not one
made out of desperation. I have no idea why you would position it as such, but
it is a most absurd deduction.
3) While you are certainly entitled to your opinion that
Microsoft's XAML-based offerings are somehow competitive with Flex (and I doubt
most of your peers would agree that Eclipse is a unwieldy cobbled together
tinkertoy), the facts remain that Microsoft's approach remains one of adopting
standards in a way that consistently (and many believe, intentionally) breaks
competing technology platforms. They've repeatedly done so with Flash, you can't
easily connect to Microsoft WSDL's using standard web service technologies (ever
try to hook up ColdFusion of FRS to MS-CRM?), and the open sourcedeveloper
community is a key target audience for Flex.
In summary, by integrating the core Actionscript classes
into the core _javascript_ standard, Adobe is making a major play on continuing to
be the driving force behind standards. It's going to make development for Flex
easier over the long haul. It was a brilliant move, not a desperate
one.
Seriously, with no disrespect intended,
Sterling Ledet
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