A loss of $30M they may be able to handle. What they can't handle is
continuing losses and the wrath of shareholders if it keeps up. I'm not
saying this has been a problem with Allaire - in fact, they posted a
profitable quarter rather quickly for a young company. If it keeps up,
however, they'll be forced to find ways to become profitable, such as
firing product developers and researchers.
I'm glad I don't hold any Allaire stock, if only because of the
conflicting emotions I'd have to deal with as a CF developer. If you
want the stock to do well, you may find yourself hoping they can cut
costs and increase profits so that the stock doesn't become worthless.
As a CF developer, though, knowing the measures they might have to take
could be very unpalatable. Best case scenario: they get it in gear and
start producing products that are both profitable for the company and a
step forward for us web developers.
Oh, and I hope I don't offend anyone by saying Allaire is most
definitely NOT a dot com. Not any more than Cisco is, even though their
fortunes are very much tied into the future of the Internet.
Jim
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From: Mark Warrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Date: Tuesday, September 19, 2000 9:06 PM
Subject: [CF-Community] RE: [Fusebox] the future of CF
You must be joking.
Dude, Allaire ain't going nowhere. They can handle a $30M net quarterly
loss.
And frankly, compared to the losses that most dot-coms rack up, that one
is pretty small.
(by the way, this is really a discussion for the CF-Community list, so
I've cross-posted there should anyone like to continue this discussion)
Regarding how CF compares to any other development platform, after
nearly 4 years of development, no one I know of has ever bench marked
two identical applications on different development platforms with each
other. So to just broadly say that ANY platform out performs ANY other
would be a rather silly statement without some sort of proof.
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> -----Original Message-----
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> Subject: [Fusebox] the future of CF
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>
> with the recent problems surrounding allaire, it makes me wonder
> what lies
> ahead?
> it seems like everyone is moving toward java/jsp.
> but how much better is JSP vs CF?
> anyone care to comment
> thanks
>
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