Personally, I'm not too worried, my skills in C++ alone are enough to keep me warm at night, but...
> This is not about me being rude, it's about needing > to realize that software languages/technologies are > here now, gone tomorrow, and you asking the company > to stick with the technology because you've learned > it is about as fruitful as asking the world to stop > turning. That might be true for alot, but products on the their 7th or 8th production version don't really seem to be a gamble. > And I really don't want to starve any families. But > if they do, that's not Adobe/Macromedia's fault, that's > the breadwinner's fault. And if I die in a GM car because of malfunction its my fault for choosing that car. I'm not saying that it is there fault, but they should maintain some kind of responsibility. My point is that its insulting for you to downplay this because it won't affect you if it happens. Its quite uncompassionate to assume that everyone else is as secure as you. Kevin ---------- http://www.keslabs.com Coldfusion Remote Dashboard :: http://www.keslabs.com/crd -----Original Message----- From: Matthew Small [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 18, 2005 12:23 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: macromedia and Adobe?! Not meaning to be rude, but don't you think that investing all of your effort in one skill is turning out to be a bad idea? What happens if Adobe/MM DOES kill off ColdFusion? Where will you be? This is not about me being rude, it's about needing to realize that software languages/ technologies are here now, gone tomorrow, and you asking the company to stick with the technology because you've learned it is about as fruitful as asking the world to stop turning. And I really don't want to starve any families. But if they do, that's not Adobe/Macromedia's fault, that's the breadwinner's fault. - Matt Small -----Original Message----- From: Kevin Aebig [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 18, 2005 2:06 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: macromedia and Adobe?! >You know, even if CF meets its maker, it's not the end of the world. It's >just a tool that we all use to make a living. Big deal, there are other >things that do it as well. As gently as I can put this, speak for yourself. I've supported MM since Flash 3 and the integration of CF into their product line. All I've asked in return was that they protect my investment in knowledge and help it grow. Now I need to worry about another company running the show and potentially running them into the ground to push ahead their own products. For you to insinuate this as no big deal is pretty rude considering that alot of their products help feed many families. Kevin ---------- http://www.keslabs.com Coldfusion Remote Dashboard :: http://www.keslabs.com/crd -----Original Message----- From: Matthew Small [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 18, 2005 11:15 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: macromedia and Adobe?! I agree, it seems like most everybody on the list is Chicken Little. This is a company merger and nothing has been said about what the real impact on CF or Flash or anything is. Ben, oh Ben, where are you? Help us! You know, even if CF meets its maker, it's not the end of the world. It's just a tool that we all use to make a living. Big deal, there are other things that do it as well. Think about the opportunities if CF does come to an end - which it won't - there will be fewer and fewer people doing it, meaning that conversions to new systems will take place, and you can be a major player in phasing it out and then you will get the opportunity to learn a new technology which you will probably then become a huge fan of because it's so much better than all the others: "Why in the world would anybody want to use anything other than Visual Java .....PHP? It's the fastest and most scalable, and the compiler automatically detects diseases in your body and deletes them!" I can program in Java, CF, .NET (VB, C#), C++, Fortran, Pascal, Javascript... big deal, it's all the same. It's a bunch of conditionals that lead to a conclusion. It's a Find-You-Own-Adventure book for computers. There's a learning curve to get the most out of them, and some are better than others for certain tasks (CF can't do multi-threading, right?), but if you can program in CF, then you should be able to adapt to the others. If you can't adapt, then you are left in the cold and rightfully so. LET THE FLAMES BEGIN - Matt Small -----Original Message----- From: Michael Haggerty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 18, 2005 12:51 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: macromedia and Adobe?! I am not saying I know anything private here, but I do not really see a reason to be concerned. In fact, this could be really, really good for CF. Adobe has been trying all sorts of ways to get into open source for the last couple of years. Would not be terribly surprised to see CF become a purely open source product. M --- Rob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Adobe is not adverse to servers. They have a > document server that can > be used to dynamically generate pdfs > http://www.adobe.com/products/server/documentserver/main.html > > Could be good could be bad. Adobe is a pretty good > company though so I > personally am trying to not jump to any conclusions. > > -- > ~Blog~ > http://www.robrohan.com > ~The cfml plug-in for eclipse~ > http://cfeclipse.tigris.org > ~open source xslt IDE~ > http://treebeard.sourceforge.net > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Find out how CFTicket can increase your company's customer support efficiency by 100% http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=49 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:203375 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
