Iron Ruby is pretty much dead. They've pulled all but one developer off of the team.
On Oct 7, 2010, at 3:53 PM, Judah McAuley wrote: > > Don't be so quick to make assumptions about MS and competing web dev > languages. I have no idea why, I really don't, but they've been > pushing PHP really hard. You'll find lots of PHP examples on their > website and PHP has been added to the CLR along with Iron Ruby and > Iron Python. > > Still, I can't imagine an MS/Adobe combination being anything other > than a very slow behemoth. On the other hand, I've already switched to > Railo for all my current CF work, so it isn't clear how much it would > all impact me. > > Judah > > On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 1:43 PM, Jerry Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> They said that about Foxpro when Microsoft bought it, and it lasted pretty >> good. >> Of course, they also said that about Fireworks when Adobe acquired >> Macromedia, so what do "they" know? >> >> >> On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 4:40 PM, Sisk, Kris <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>> I suspect that ColdFusion would not be long for this world. Or any other >>> product for which Microsoft has a competing product already >>> (Dreamweaver?). At the very least the developer edition with its built >>> in Apache would go away, as would the Linux version, and licensing would >>> become an absolute nightmare. I could see it becoming incompatible with >>> Apache to. As hostile towards OSS as Microsoft is and as much OSS as CF >>> integrates I'd be very worried about the future of ColdFusion if I >>> though Microsoft was going to buy Adobe. Fortunately for my piece of >>> mind I can't think of any reason why Adobe would be interested in such a >>> merger. >>> >>> And I would ask that no one shatter that delusion. I'd rather not have >>> nightmares tonight. >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: G Money [mailto:[email protected]] >>> Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2010 3:32 PM >>> To: cf-community >>> Subject: Re: Microsoft Bought Adobe Today? >>> >>> >>> On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 3:14 PM, Medic <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> Great. >>>> >>>> So rather than "CF is dead" being the common topic it will be "CF is >>> the >>>> devil." >>>> >>>> Wonderful. >>>> >>> >>> Hey, could be worse.....the Devil is eternal :) >>> >>> -- >>> Glittering prizes and endless compromises >>> Shatter the illusion of integrity >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:328817 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
