You know, this thread actually has little to do with the reality of Allaire or CF and a lot to do with nervousness over the pace of innovation. Heck, I'm nervous too...but not because of any real problem with CF or the company. I found a great product, invested weeks and $$$ in training courses to learn it, spent more than a year developing CF sites and apps...and now that we have all this experience, we naturally get nervous when we hear someone talk about ASP, JSP, PHP (it's free, whoopie...let all the developers go broke), java this, java that...you do feel sometimes you have to defend CF, and it's not fair. But in REAL terms, its meaningless, because Allaire has strategically positioned itself for Java products, and CF can already take advantage of Java in many ways, with more to come. (And as an article in CF Developer's Journal pointed out, CF can already meet any candy-ass esoteric test of a so-called "real programming language." ) But tomorrow ... somebody can invent "Tea" and suddenly everybody wants to learn Tea and not Java. Okay? We don't want a fickle market to take away something we have an investment in....psychic, time, financial, or otherwise. We know popularity rules the day and we are scared to death to commit to anything because there is always something new next year. At some point, the software industry is going to have to face this fact: people can only learn so many apps, and can use and buy only so many apps. If the only way you can make money is by being new, something is fundamentally wrong with the market. The cycle is just way, way, too fast. For the record: I write my personal journal in Wordperfect 5.1 for DOS. And I also use Xywrite. So there! :-P Jeff Epstein >This happens, every company goes through transition periods. But I truly >believe that CF is here to stay and has my 100% support. CF has grown to _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe visit http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/cf_community or send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in the body.
