We're definitely trying to spend our resources as wisely as possible.
We've held back talking about the Event Gateway and IM/SMS feature set during the early tours, etc for a number of reasons, but you'll be hearing much more about them.
Since we haven't shown or demoed the amazing Blackstone capabilities Event Gateways enable, I think you'll want to reserve judgment on their likely popularity. Ben's teaser File Watcher demo ate one of the CFUG's (the only thing publicly shown about this feature set so far), definitely shouldn't be used to judge the likely appeal of this functionality.
The Blackstone feature set will without a doubt let CF developers think outside the web app box. Web apps are great, but the world is increasingly wireless, mobile and instant. Now and in the future, I believe the Event Gateway functionality and its extensibility will be important for customers to build apps that talk to anything, respond to anything, and can do virtually anything. You can't have a grand vision like that without being open and extensible, and that's what we're doing.
Lots of protocols discussed here, but we also want to think about the ones not yet invented, and proprietary ones as well. Fr the Gateways we ship, I think we will be able to satisfy most needs. For Gateways and message and event-based protocols we don't ship in the box, you don't have to wait for us to build them.
CF changed the world once before, spawning and inspiring ASP, JSP and others, and I think we're positioned to do it again.
Regards,
Damon
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