Seriously doubt you'll see extensions for FrontPage.. this is a direct
competitor with DW.
Access extensions -- probably not: ASP competes with ColdFusion, and why
would MS give you the ability to use something other than their
product? Besides, so what... any real developer wouldn't use an Access
auto-generator.
If the ASP market dies, no biggie. CF is one any many languages used to
build anything on the web, including ASPs. Might affect CF, the same as
it'll affect ASP, JSP, PHP, etc.
Does Macromedia base itself on technology or marketing fluff? I'd say
that we have nothing to worry about. Look at Flash. It keeps getting
better. And remember that Jeremy Allaire will be Macromedia's CTO.
Just remember that this market is crazy. Over the last year, the market
has changed considerably. In five years, who knows? We'll be coding
for IE 9, Netscape 18, the Palm XIII, WAP, Refrigerator 2.0, gaming
consoles, etc. Accept change or become a dentist :)
--
Billy Cravens
HR Web Development, Sabre
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Martin Sutton wrote:
>
> I've been thinking to day of the different possible scenario's we could face
> as CF developers. One of them struck me as quite amusing.
>
> Since MM are very much into integrating with Microsoft products does this
> mean we are going to start seeing "Wizards" in Access which generate CF code
> along with bloated xml and the like? Will there be CF extentions to
> frontpage?!
>
> Will CF be an intraverted technology from now on? As developers are we
> going to see our specialism disappear in a puff of smoke as CF succumbs to
> the marketing machines of huge coroporations desperate to increase revenue
> rather than develop technology with the end user in mind? Are we to believe
> that Microsoft and MM are customer led? I don't think so, and in the new
> age of e-business, thats what counts. Management led e-businesses are few
> and far between, or should be.
>
> I have also heard a disturbing rumour that the ASP (Application Service
> Provider not MS ASP!) industry is about to collapse. It hasn't taken off as
> expected at all. Will this also contribute to the decline of our chosen
> technology?
>
> Martin.
>
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