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> From: Hydra [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> To: CF-Talk
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> I continue to be mystified by these kinds of discussions. Would someone take
> a moment to explain this phenomenon?
>
> If someone really writes a "FreeCF" and the Allaire Corp. goes down the
> tubes, then will we really all be better off? When all software is
> OpenSource, free, etc. then how do developers make a living?
>
> Do all of you live at home with your parents or what???
There area already many alternatives to CF - ASP, IHTML, XML, PHP, SOAP to name
but a few - but CF continues to go from strength to strength. The reason it does
so is the same reason that we all use it here - there is no better solution
right now for creating dynamic, data driven services and sites. Whether the
development tool is free or commecial is irrelevant - developers make their
money from using the tools to create apps, rather than selling the tool itself.
Allaire though is extremely exposed as a company (IMO) having said that - it is
still ostensibly a one product company unless Spectra takes off big time, and
even that is still based on the same fundamental product. I want to see Allaire
survive and prosper to keep on developing CF as a commercial product, but they
had better diversify and fast, or exist as a takeover target.
Adrian Cooper.
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