Angus You're quite correct about a relationship between Flex and ColdFusion sales. I interviewed Tim Buntel at MAX last year for BuilderAU and he told me then that CF sales had been helped by Flex. Scorpio will offer even better Flex support so if you're building frontends in Flex and you want to connect to data one easy choice will be ColdFusion.
Andrew On 26/04/07, Angus Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok here's my take... > > It's really not unexpected. The SDK source was provided from day one, this > at least makes it official. No more concerns about IP when building custom > components. > > From a Coldfusion perspective? > > Learn Flex / Actionscript as of yesterday. There's going to be an explosion > in the number of sexy drag and drop UI components. Coldfusion front ends in > html are going to seem ho hum at best. (Even if they are uber cool > ajax/dhtml). > > I see Coldfusion server sales picking up as Flex/AS3 cuts into php, asp, > other markets. This is a natural flow on from a bigger slice of the web > technology pie that Adobe will reap. > > New functionality will focus on server side integration eg email and > database servers not front end. Front end = Flex / Flash. > > CF may continue to have a role in document management ie, search engine safe > but I seriously doubt that this one wont be better handled via Flex/AS > interfaces as well. Interesting to see how Adobe works in pdf handling. > > Flex Data Services / Live Cycle Data Services will be the bridge between CF > and Flex more so than today. > > Don't even get me started on how Apollo will change things. I suspect that > it will be open sourced as well. > > While I would like CF to be open source I don't see it going that way. Sorry > Andrew :) > > CF will continue on, bigger market share but more enterprise back end in > nature. > > How's that? > Angus > > > > On 26/04/07, Andrew Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Barry, > > > > My first reaction, what date is it again oh wow its past April 1st:-) > > > > My second reaction, after I picked myself of the floor, that is a very > bold > > and very strategic move by Adobe on this. My thoughts are that it would be > > to compete with Blend / WPF / silverlight or whatever they damn call it > > these days. > > > > But what a move... Please pinch me when they do this for CF *lol* > > > > But to be honest I think that even though Flex has a strong following, > > people are really adopting open source even more and this would be a great > > example of a product that will endeavour to survive past its due date, if > > there ever was one:-) And people are going to feel like they are shaping > its > > future, as well as getting bug fixes released quickly. > > > > Great move Adobe, absolutely fantastic is all I can say. > > > > > > Andrew Scott > > Senior Coldfusion Developer > > Aegeon Pty. Ltd. > > www.aegeon.com.au > > Phone:+613 8676 4223 > > Mobile: 0404 998 273 > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: cfaussie@googlegroups.com [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf > > Of Barry Beattie > > Sent: Thursday, 26 April 2007 3:55 PM > > To: cfaussie@googlegroups.com > > Subject: [cfaussie] What's it all mean for CF developers? [Flex now Open > > Source'd] > > > > > > So, Flex has been open-sourced... > > > > > http://www.onflex.org/ted/2007/04/flex-goes-open-source-mpl.php > > > > what's it mean for us CF people? > > > > thoughts? > > > > b > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew Muller http://www.webqem.com linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/1/151/905 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "cfaussie" group. To post to this group, send email to cfaussie@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cfaussie?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
