Tony, Let me rephrase:
Do you think MM wouldn't sell CF for the right price? Do you think MS would buy CF just to eliminate .NET competition? >From MMs standpoint, it's a sweet deal. They buy it one year for 10x, release MX, sell it for 100X a few years later. That's a nice profit. For a company who was never supporting developers to begin with. Adam Wayne Lehman Web Systems Developer Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Distance Education Division -----Original Message----- From: Tony Weeg [mailto:tony@;navtrak.net] Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2002 4:30 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: SOT: Sad Day does anyone really think cf could go by the wayside? .tony Tony Weeg Senior Web Developer Information System Design Navtrak, Inc. Fleet Management Solutions www.navtrak.net 410.548.2337 -----Original Message----- From: Adrocknaphobia Jones [mailto:adrocknatalk@;hotmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2002 4:23 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: SOT: Sad Day Jeff, I'll back you up. MM has a long history of abandoning products. Everyone seems to act like CF is invincible, yet it was sold by Allaire a little over a year ago. The sad fact of the matter is that MS is more trustworthy than MM, when it comes to secure futures for its developers. I mean, C# could be the biggest failure of all time, but MS would ride it out and C# developers would have jobs for a long time to come. JSP is stable, because it's not a company centric language. It's the CF developers who are up late at night wondering what the future holds. Do you think MM will keep CF around if it starts to tank? Phat chance. If the software doesn't sail, these captains jump before the women and children. I know I'm not the only one who learned Generator. :) I'd just like to take this opportunity to encourage everyone to learn a new language. Even if you don't use it extensively, you can at least secure peace-of-mind. Adam Wayne Lehman Web Systems Developer Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Distance Education Division -----Original Message----- From: Jeffry Houser [mailto:jeff@;farcryfly.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2002 3:52 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: SOT: Sad Day The fact that I have seen the same ( or similar ) words said a bunch of times on this list makes me suspicious of them. At 03:32 PM 11/12/2002 -0500, you wrote: >that is correct. we are not cutting back. in fact, we will be dedicating >more resources to the coldfusion community. > >mike chambers > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Andrew Tyrone [mailto:atyrone@;optonline.net] > > Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2002 3:19 PM > > To: CF-Talk > > Subject: RE: SOT: Sad Day > > > > > > I don't understand why everyone jumps to the conclusion that > > MM is cutting > > back. Maybe Vernon left because he wanted to, who knows. As with the > > Contribute thread (I'm glad I made an OT sub-folder for > > cf-talk), people > > start assuming and making stuff up before they know the whole story! > > > > On that note, I am glad that Vernon will be around as he's a > > good voice of > > reason to this list, at least in my opinion. > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting.
