At 09:32 AM 1/17/01 -0500, you wrote:
> Well I will put my two cents in on this subject and then won't say
>anything else about it. The merger could be a bad thing, it could end up
>being a good thing, but I won't lose one moment of sleep because I am
>confident in my ability as a developer to roll with the times. If MM buries
>CF then I'll learn other languages that don't cost money to get. I'll
>broaden my horizons more, not that I am not trying to do that now, but we
>are developers. We shouldn't be held down by one platform or one programming
>language. CF wasn't going to be around forever, this deal just cemented that
>fact, so as a community we either roll with the punches or we stop
>programming.
Frankly, all this bad speculation about CF not existing in the future even
though it would be a bad business move for Macromedia and that Jeremy
Allaire is Macromedia's CTO as part of the deal, shows me how much faith CF
developers really have in the product. Speculation like this is what causes
a panic and makes people go with other products. If the developers don't
have enough faith in the product to say "You know, this product has really
done wonders for my business and I think it would be stupid for Macromedia
to simply trash it" why would someone else want to use it? Furthermore, why
would Macromedia continue with the product if the intended market of
regular users is ready to bail on it on a moment's notice?
It's good to have other skills and it's good to have something to fall back
on regardless of the status of a particular product, but if the whole
ColdFusion community goes completely paranoid about this people are going
to wonder why. Macromedia is not stupid and they wouldn't buy a company for
$360,000,000 (I wish I had that in my accounts) and then throw out most of
the company's products-- products that were not even really in competition
with their own.
So everybody just chill out. This may have some bad consequences but those
will probably be small things, not big things like "Let's abandon
ColdFusion and Spectra."
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