I have a few observations that allay my fears some.
Since early on in the history of the 2 companies, Macromedia and Allaire
have had a very close relationship. In 1998, Allaire and Macromedia were
co-sponsors of the Builder.com Live conference in New Orleans.
Now that Macromedia needs a server component for thier multimedia web
efforts, they turn to Allaire.
I feel that Cold Fusion will continue on the current development path for 12
months or so. Then we should see a combining of the CF application server
with multimedia servers. It will be a single turn-key solution for anyone
setting up a web site. CF provides the interface to the backend and the
Macromedia the streaming audio, video, etc.
Russel
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen R. Cassady [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2001 03:32
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: Why I'm a little worried about it being MM taking over
>
>
>
> OK - while I'm happy that CF may survive (as a developer my strength is CF
> not ASP though I now have second thoughts) - my main worry is in my
> knowledge and experience of MacroMedia:
>
> I purchased Drumbeat 2000 (Drumbeat is the company that MM bought
> to develop
> UltraDev). Drumbeat was a visual tool that incorporated database access -
> though it's visual side lacked a lot of features. I never upgraded because
> it took so long for MM to release their UltraDev Version. So - time to
> market after company purchase. This worry extends to CF 5.0/6.0 with the
> Java Engine.
>
> I'm familiar with their FreeHand product, and have seen (what I believe)
> slow development of a product even in light of strong competition (Corel
> Draw and Adobe Illustrator), with a tendency to ignore the development
> community. I have never seen a product "pony show" so viciously
> ripped apart
> as they were up here in Calgary a while back. There was real venom from a
> lack of corporate response.
>
> I looked at .asp and went .cfm instead because of Unix support. Macromedia
> is inherently not Unix, UNLESS it's a Mac OSX port to be done. We
> are taking
> people who love their Macs. (I love Macs too - just server based, hell,
> DATABASE web work is generally Unix or NT, some J2EE).
>
> I own DreamWeaver and Studio. I use Studio. Enough said.
>
> Amazing Allaire off-line support and customer retention: I received a
> t-shirt because they rescheduled an online presentation. They are
> one of the
> few company's that has gone out of it's way to maintain my interest and
> support as a developer.
>
> Finally: Macromedia is primarily a graphics-platform company, and recently
> really only competed with Adobe. This is their first move into something
> much more founded in the structure of communication - not just
> the look and
> feel. I have some concern if the culture can bend to give the
> Allaire staff
> a sense of home.
>
> I hope most of the Allaire staff join Macromedia.
>
> Sniff! Hey - what happens to Ben Forta?
>
> (Ok so maybe from those last comments I'm just knee-jerking).
>
> But I guess I've staked close to 2 years of hardcore development
> on CF (with
> experimentation and some development in other areas), and my belief in
> MacroMedia as a corporate entity that can enter the server/code
> side of the
> market (because Allaire really isn't Studio - it's the underlying
> code base
> in Cold Fusion), is troubled.
>
> Can a graphics company successfully incorporate a hard-code set of
> engineers, and maket/maitain/grow a server product successfully?
>
> Well,
> I hope - and I'll try to give a benefit of the doubt.
> :-)
>
> Stephen Cassady
> President, Ububik new media
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 403.271.0468
>
> http://www.ububik.com http://www.tallylist.com http://www.spankmag.com
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