It seems odd that from Adam's fairly positive post people are taking away a sense of doom for CF. From the sounds of it Adobe has agreed to give CF more focus. Any way you cut it that's good for the product. Here's hoping the overall strategy also includes some aggressive marketing... then I can stop bitching about it. ;)
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 8:32 PM, Sean Corfield <[email protected]>wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 4:23 PM, Russ Michaels <[email protected]> > wrote: > > worst. I can understand why anyone would assume the worst about > outsourcing > > to India, it has a bad rep and most people who have had to deal with > > outsourced support will have been driven to tearing their hair out at > some > > point. But as has been said, this is not really outsourcing as Adobe have > > offices and staff there and have had for a long time. > > FWIW, the CF / Builder product teams are in Bangalore which was > Macromedia's India office for a long time. The Web Team (which I > created - just after Macromedia acquired Allaire) had most its QA team > in India so that we could do 24 hour dev cycles (dev in SF, QA > overnight in India). It worked very well. Macromedia had a number of > product teams in India. When Adobe acquired Macromedia, that meant two > India offices - since Adobe already had an office in Noida with many > of its product teams situated there. > > There's no change to the team that brought us CF8 and CF9 and CFB1 - > they're the same folks in India that they've always been and so it's > the same team bringing us CFX. > > The _only_ change in Adam's (long) blog post was that the two roles of > Product Management and Product Marketing Management will now be > co-located with the engineering team, as part of a larger, > well-established business unit that already maintains Framemaker > Server and RoboHelp Server (yes, two server products already live in > that BU). > > It seems that any and all change is scary to some folks and a number > of them predict doom and disaster every time there's a change. It > happened when Macromedia bought Allaire. It happened when Adobe bought > Macromedia. It happened when Tim Buntel stepped down as PM, it > happened when Jason Delmore was let go from his PM role and it's > happened again with Adam transitioning the PM role to someone new. So > far, doom and disaster has failed to follow any of those changes... > -- > 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/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:342249 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
