At first it took me a while to get my mind around the MX naming, but finally it made sense to me.
With numbering, while you may have different products made around the same time and optimized to work together, it can be challenging to remember that DW 4, FL 5, CF 5, FH 10 and Dir 8.5 all came out about the same time and "go together." With the MX family of products from Macromedia, we've put more effort than ever before into the interoperability/integration of our current round of product offerings, so I beleive the "powers that be" wanted this to be reflected in a naming convention that closely ties all the products together and is easy to keep up with. Stated another way, it's a method of getting all the products on the same "version" without having to back-up or advance version numbers (i.e. move everything to version 11 so they all match, and then confuse folks who want to know why we jumped 7 version numbers ahead on Dreamweaver, and/or backed up 5 version numbers on something else) I hope this helps clarify it! Vernon Viehe Community Manager Macromedia, Inc. -----Original Message----- From: Aidan Whitehall To: CF-Talk Sent: 5/3/2002 9:41 AM Subject: RE: CFMX = Neo ? > > Is CFMX CF6? > > Yes, I think. Or, to be more exact, CF 6 is CF MX. CF 7 might > also be called > CF MX when it comes out, depending on the traction that the > "MX" label picks up. Jeez... these short-sighted naming conventions seem to be everywhere. "Windows XP", "ColdFusion MX", "broadband", the list goes on. Give me a "version 4.1" or a 318i any day. -- Aidan Whitehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Macromedia ColdFusion Developer Fairbanks Environmental +44 (0)1695 51775 ______________________________________________________________________ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm 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
