13. Macromedia Warms Up ColdFusion
Application Infrastructure & Software Platforms
by Robert Perry
Event Summary
On April 29, Macromedia announced ColdFusion MX, an update to the early
Web application platform originally offered by Allaire. ColdFusion MX is a
development platform that runs on J2EE application servers.
Market Analysis
The success of Java as a server development language has raised questions
about the future of ColdFusion. ColdFusion was very successful as a
development and deployment platform for Web applications. It was an early
entrant and offered a easy to use scripting language that worked well for
many developers. Today, it enjoys the support of a large developer community
and a host of third-party applications. A 2001 Yankee Group survey showed
that it remained a popular corporate application platform with 13% of
respondents indicating they were running applications on ColdFusion.
Yet, it wasn't Java and everyone is talking about Java, .NET, and Web
services. ColdFusion seemed destined to gradually fade away as these newer
development platforms continued their momentum. ColdFusion MX not only
breathes life into ColdFusion, it applies it strengths in ease of use and
rapid application delivery to the harder to use J2EE platform. ColdFusion
developers can transfer their skills to the Java platform seeing the
benefits of its highly scalable architecture.
Conclusions/Recommendations
a.. The Macromedia MX rollout shows the company understands the needs of
users by offering the tools to create rich applications that are easier to
use while offering a more enjoyable interaction and the requirements of
developers' tools to build these applications rapidly.
b.. Corporate IT groups wondering what to do with their ColdFusion
applications and their ColdFusion developers can wonder no more. They should
adopt ColdFusion MX and migrate their existing applications to the scalable
J2EE platform.
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