Indeed. If you look at what Adobe gets in the deal, the major pieces that don't overlap with their current product offerings, namely Flash and CF, have a common thread - delivery/distribution.
They already had a fairly substantial lead in authoring tools - Photoshop, Premier, Illustrator - and now they have a couple of great products to allow people to publish the content as well. This is pretty powerful - it will now be possible to handle every aspect of designing, building and publishing interactive web content without using a single product not made by Adobe. And I am not concerned that they don't have experience with server products - that experience comes with the deal, just as it did for Macromedia when they purchased Allaire. On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 12:44 -0400, Bill Rawlinson wrote: > I agree with Ryan. I personally don't think, as a CF developer, that > this news really impacts my future much. > I'm not worried at all. > > First it was Allaire, then Macromedia, next Adobe. CF will continue > on as is I am sure. Adobe has no compelling reason > to do away with it - and only positive reasons to keep it. > > It doesn't have any competing technolgies already under the adobe > umbrella - and will simply give Adobe a entry in a new market. > > Bill > > On 4/18/05, Ryan Duckworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think that most ColdFusion programmers / managers are > overreacting to > this announcement. > > The programmers of CF 7 (BlackStone) are not likely to be let > go because > of this. > > Let's suppose that I was a manager at Adobe, I would see > ColdFusion as a > great revenue stream, and I would want to retain those > programmers and > project managers that have grown the subscriber base. > > I think we as a community would be best off to be optimistic > about this > because the individuals who built CF 6 & 7 are likely to still > be in > charge of future releases. > > In addition, I think it would be in the best interest of Adobe > to keep > major players such as Ben Forta and many others actively > involved in the > CF community & releases. > > Ryan Duckworth > Macromedia ColdFusion Certified Professional > Uhlig Communications > 10983 Granada Lane > Overland Park, KS 66211 > (913) 754-4272 > > > ---------------------------------------------------------- > You are subscribed to cfcdev. To unsubscribe, send an email to > [email protected] with the words 'unsubscribe cfcdev' as the > subject of the email. > > CFCDev is run by CFCZone (www.cfczone.org) and supported by > CFXHosting (www.cfxhosting.com). > > An archive of the CFCDev list is available at > www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > > > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://blog.rawlinson.us > > If you want Gmail - just ask. > ---------------------------------------------------------- > You are subscribed to cfcdev. To unsubscribe, send an email to > [email protected] with the words 'unsubscribe cfcdev' as the subject > of the email. > > CFCDev is run by CFCZone (www.cfczone.org) and supported by CFXHosting > (www.cfxhosting.com). > > An archive of the CFCDev list is available at > www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------- You are subscribed to cfcdev. To unsubscribe, send an email to [email protected] with the words 'unsubscribe cfcdev' as the subject of the email. CFCDev is run by CFCZone (www.cfczone.org) and supported by CFXHosting (www.cfxhosting.com). An archive of the CFCDev list is available at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
