I agree with you on that one. Excuses aside, the marketing concentrates on those other features because there is more to say about them. As I already said, there are indeed benefits for us CF folks but they are incremental, not major new features (that I know of). CF should have been been more prominent, they screwed up, and we're not letting them live it down, but at the same time that wasn't a whole lot more to say (that was CF specific).
---- Ben -----Original Message----- From: Angel Stewart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 4:17 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: DWMX 2004 - Whats new for us? Speaking for myself, I do question the commitment from a marketing standpoint for CF. You said that they wished to target the PHP and ASP market, but this doesn't explain why there was no mention of CF specific products in their initial marketing campaign. That contradicts a company wide commitment to a product and a cohesive vision for a line of utilities that includes that product. It's like New Atlanta came out with an IDE for CFML and in the next revision mentioning pages upon pages of new features for .Net and nothing for the standard Bluedragon server, whilst saying outside the offical marketing campaign there have been several 'exciting' improvements for standard Bluedragon. That's akin to what MM is doing with their marketing. In the offical campaign they mention improvements for .ASP and .PHP. But on these lists they say that us CF Coders have so much to look forward to, yet none of these are worth mentioning in the official marketing campaign??? That does not compute. -Angel -----Original Message----- From: Ben Forta [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 3:27 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: DWMX 2004 - Whats new for us? For those of you who question the commitment to CF, um, hello? Did you miss 6.1? I for one think that CFMX 6.1 is a very significant upgrade, you may feel otherwise and are entitled to do so. Regardless, investing as we did in CF and then releasing it as a free upgrade to me spells Commitment (with a capital C). Yes, I know there are other departments and product teams within Macromedia who like to play Switzerland and not marry themselves to any product for fear of alienating users of other technologies, but that is marketing and should be recognized as such. I beat up on them for it, you should feel free to do the same. If you hear nothing from the CF team for a while, get worried, until then realize that Macromedia is a big company (i.e., not Allaire) selling lots of products many of which generate far greater revenue than does ColdFusion. --- Ben ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=t:4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm
