I wouldn't think this would happen. Many federal agencies have a large commitment to ColdFusion, if it goes open source (with no single authoritative source for support IE: Adobe) It'll leave theses agencies with a product that they'll drop like a bad habit.
That's too big of a single customer base to just leave out in the cold. sas Scott A. Stewart ColdFusion Developer GNSI 11820 Parklawn Dr Rockville, MD 20852 (301) 770-9610 -----Original Message----- From: Thomas Chiverton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2005 10:26 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Rumors from Max... On Tuesday 01 November 2005 18:51, Jeff Small wrote: > "Rumor is, Adobe might release CF to the open source community..." I would only be moderately surprised, though very excited, if this became true. A few years ago, CFML was about the only easy, quick way to build a dynamic web site (certainly nothing else was tag-based, really). Now, there are great JSP tag libs - such as Apache's Tomahawk extensions. The argument for 4 grand of CFML server to do something equally well as a JSP page is getting harder and harder to make. Remember, most people don't use Flash forms, gateways and all the other stuff CF comes with that JSP doesn't. Add to that that I have yet to see a good reason for using Flash anything over a decent DHTML version, and maybe you can see why we have a long term vision here that replaces our large CFML site with one based on JSP taglibs and a full J2EE architecture (which we have for webservice purposes anyway). This work will also pay off when/if we have to bundle up and ship to customers our application - 4K more profit (or undercutting the opposition) per unit is a lot. Dunno if open source CFML would be enough to halt this. Might just be... -- Tom Chiverton Advanced ColdFusion Programmer ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Logware (www.logware.us): a new and convenient web-based time tracking application. Start tracking and documenting hours spent on a project or with a client with Logware today. Try it for free with a 15 day trial account. http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=67 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:222906 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=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
