Trivia fact: Macromedia did consider rebranding the product for 6.0, which as we all know was the first version to be built on Java.
On 22 June 2010 05:39, Sean Corfield <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 12:44 PM, Robert Harrison > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Because the best links I got out of my previous email were at best bleak. >> The best link prompted an on-list response that we have 4 years to learn a >> new language. > > Bear in mind that Microsoft introduced ASP at the end of 1996 and > essentially replaced it with ASP.NET just five years later. ASP.NET is > just over 8 years old. CFML is already 15 years old and still going > strong with a new version already being planned (and I believe Adobe > have said they have the next two versions on their schedule which > probably stretches out about four years - so you've got a couple of > years at least of CF11 after that before, no doubt, CF12 follows it > and so on). > > That Gartner report also said the rise of free open source CFML engine > helps protect your investment in CF technology (because there will > always be runtime engines for it). > > The suggestion to rebrand ColdFusion (it's one word, not two, BTW), > comes up in most "ColdFusion is Dead" discussions and, as folks tend > to point out, renaming it won't magically make it more popular > (unfortunately). > > Adobe seem very dedicated to ColdFusion. They just invested a lot of > time and money creating an IDE for it (ColdFusion Builder rocks!). The > CF product team folks are currently visiting customers getting > feedback for ColdFusion "10" and ColdFusion Builder 2.0 (and later > versions - they've already outlined a release schedule that has CFB2 > and CFB3). > -- > Sean A Corfield -- (904) 302-SEAN > Railo Technologies, Inc. -- http://getrailo.com/ > An Architect's View -- http://corfield.org/ > > "If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive." > -- Margaret Atwood > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:334716 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
