On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 10:06 AM, Dave Watts wrote: > >> I look at is as more of a break dancing crew scenario: We battle each >> other to push ourselves, so that we can go out there and form like >> Voltron when battling the other "crews" (PHP, .NET, etc.). >> >> It doesn't need to be contentious. Friendly competition is where it's at, >> yo. > > This is not how Adobe sees things, I'm sure. You're either using their > product, or you're not. If you stop using ColdFusion, no one at Adobe > is going to get warm fuzzies by thinking, "well, at least they're > still using CFML".
I know some people at Adobe wouldn't get warm fuzzies, but the ones who pay attention to the long tail might. Look at Refynr. Aaron has a project there that has potential, which he started with Railo. He didn't have the cash for CF, but Railo allowed him to develop in his preferred language anyway. Adobe saw the potential, maybe noticed a bit of buzz, and donated some CF9 and CFB goodness. Now it's running on Adobe's engine, as that's what Aaron is most comfortable with. If Reyfner really takes off, that'd not only be good for CFML in general (us), it'd be good for Adobe, specifically. Or maybe not. Maybe none of that matters. I'm no marketing guru. Hell, they donated the engine, so no direct, up front money was made. Maybe they don't care about language recognition as a factor in engine sales. Or maybe they see a potential for future upgrades. It seems logical to me that, if one is using CFML, there's more of a chance for Adobe to be an engine running it, than if one is using, say, PHP. I dunno. Put another way, I expect that folks change vendors more often than they change platforms. Before alternate engines, the only option was another platform. I'll take one in the bush and none in the hand, if the other option is none in the bush or the hand, so to speak. If I were Adobe, I'd be super stoked that there were communities like the ones around Railo and OpenBD. But I'm also a CFML developer. :) As a CFML developer, I prefer the vendor switch over the platform switch. As an Adobe stockholder, I'd-- well, I'd feel the same. Because I feel that what's good for developers is good for the platform, but perhaps I'm naive. No, I *know* I'm naive. Perpetually so. So feel free to discount all of this. :) :Den -- I hate books; they only teach us to talk about what we don't know. Jean-Jacques Rousse ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:341704 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
