> -----Original Message----- > From: samcfug [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2003 12:48 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: msft taking over macromedia > > > He wasn't opening that old debate, he was commenting on the > MM site demonstrating support for ASP.NET and PHP on their web site.
Are you sure: I took it (as many other did) that he was commenting on the specific URL MScromedia.com being active. Even if not - PHP support would have nothing to do with MS taking over Macromedia (and the very existence of a PHP initiative seems to speak against it). However neither does a .NET initiative speak to a future merger. Both Allaire and Macromedia have a long history of application/OS agnotiscism. Flash runs on everything and has for a long time. ColdFusion supports anything you could throw at it (and will continue to do so). Finally (and this is the topic at Macromedia.com) DreamWeaver has always been a broad-based, multi-language development tool. Even with their own standards Macromedia has shown a striking lack of litigiousness: both Flash and CFML have been used by other tool vendors and MM seems to be pretty comfortable with that (unlike Sun and Java for example). In general the point always seems to have been: "If you can't beat them, join them" when it comes to technology. Not in the sense of mere with them, of course, but in the sense of supporting whatever the big few throw out. Jim Davis ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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 Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
