Our history has long shown that competition is the best way to strengthen a product. The fact that a competing implementation of CFML exists in the first place is most likely a sign of one of two things. One, CFML is maturing into market niches that a single vendor can't handle on their own. Or two, there is some unhappiness among CFML users that another vendor is attempting to solve.
Matt Liotta President & CEO Montara Software, Inc. http://www.montarasoftware.com/ 888-408-0900 x901 > -----Original Message----- > From: Judith Dinowitz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, October 14, 2002 10:51 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: BlueDragon (was RE: How is CFMX J2EE implemented?) > > I am all for healthy competition, but I'm wondering if introducing new > tags into a different flavor of ColdFusion is a good idea. In the current > economy, when we should be working to strengthen ColdFusion in the > marketplace, I think this will lead to more confusion, a diversion of the > marketshare, and finally, a weakening of ColdFusion as a platform. People > are not going to just be saying, "Is ColdFusion standard?" But they're > going to be saying "What version of ColdFusion should I use?" There's a > ColdFusion standard -- Allaire created ColdFusion, Macromedia owns it, > that's the standard. Anything else is a parser. > > Judith > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/cf_talk FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm
