Even if the rumor is true or not, we can't kid ourselves into thinking ColdFusion will be around for much longer in it's current state. It's governed by a company that's core product is a plugin to display moving vector graphics. Granted, they have other products, I personally use fireworks as an alternative to photoshop. That's all great, but we can't expect them to churn out and maintain a solid, server-side scripting engine, capable of competing with it's FREE alternatives - for much longer. It's simply out of their scope.
At first, I want to say "release it to the public, and charge for studio licenses", but then I look at the linux operating system, and that blows that whole idea out of the water (not trying to offend any hardcore linux advocates out there). There has to be some viable solution to preserve this tool without worrying about its parent's control over its existence. I can live with having to develop in PHP, ASP.NET, or even the dreaded "J2EE" (VM - blech), but I just don't want to. Cold Fusion makes it easy for me to hack something together in a day and please the boss or whoever it is I'm developing for, which is great - "work smarter not harder" right? It's solid (if you know all the little gotchas), and it's clean. There's just that one big, dark cloud hovering above us all that quietly chants "I may not be here for you in a year, I may suddenly abandon you, your work will mean nothing then, you will have wasted 4 years living with me, I am the ghost of Macromedia Future". Am I just crazy, or is anyone else in the same boat as I? Adam. ps. I'm not trying to sound like one of those "the end is near" fearmongerers, I just want to see if I'm the only one that feels this way. -----Original Message----- From: Frank Priest [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 3:01 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Macromedia.com MicroMedia Big rumors abound in Macromedia land... word is the company is in dire straights and that discussions between Macromedia and Microsoft are in the works. Acquisition? Possibly... probably just Flash, DreamWeaver, and UltraDev -- and in the meanwhile, kill off MS ASP competitor (not really) ColdFusion. Who knows about FreeHand and Director... Layoffs imminent. When: 1/30/2002 Company: Macromedia http://fuckedcompany.com/ ______________________________________________________________________ Dedicated Windows 2000 Server PIII 800 / 256 MB RAM / 40 GB HD / 20 GB MO/XFER Instant Activation � $99/Month � Free Setup http://www.pennyhost.com/redirect.cfm?adcode=coldfusiona FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
