There are a lot of things threatened by this. It makes no sense for a single company to have two product lines doing exactly the same thing.
Which brings us to Silverlight and Flash. Why would Microsoft keep both running concurrently in the same marketspace? The two companies compete directly in too many areas for there not to be serious casualties in a merger. On 8 October 2010 06:56, Scott Stewart <[email protected]> wrote: > > 1) M$, realizing that ColdFusion and Flash/Flex have a large installed > market and is a far easier ramp up than .Net, keeps CF intact and moves > .Net > into the desktop realm. > > 2) Or in the event that M$ wants to kill both platforms, Adobe either sells > CF to someone like Borland or SAS, or releases the source code as open > source, CF lives on as a direct competitor to PHP and persists as a > competitor to .Net > > Jus' speculatin'... > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:328863 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
