> I think the above response is drawing some pretty large
conclusions
> that aren't based on any substantiated facts. You don't really need (and will probably not have) any
substantiated facts at hand when drawing conclusions about future actions a
public company might take. All you have is instinct, an understanding of
what truly drives public companies, market forces, technology innovations, etc,
to guide you. Licking your finger and sticking it in the air to tell which
way the wind blows helps, too.
How are you ever going to have any substantiated facts that
tell you in plain terms what a company definitely will do? The facts that
are released to the public have been thoroughly sanitized and neutered by Public
Relations and Legal, and the SEC only lets you say certain things
(virtually nothing of importance) when mergers are about to happen. I
wouldn't even call most of them facts, but rather diversions from the real facts
being hidden. I mean, big business is often a poker game,
yes?
There are things that Chizen is dealing with right now that
will determine how Adobe will "handle" its inheritance of the Macromedia product
line, and they have absolutely nothing at all to do with any of us or how "cool"
some people think ColdFusion is. And federal law dictates that Chizen, as
the leader of a publicly traded company, *must* act with sole regard to the
betterment of his stockholders' financial positions, as long as those actions do
not violate any laws.
So let's all stop being naive about ColdFusion's future having
anything at all to do with current number of installations, how much you like
it, how important it is to you, or anything else that a developer might see as
important.
It may be hard to swallow, but nothing about you or what you
do is of any importance to them whatsoever.
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