Re: [ACFUG Discuss] Adobe Donating Flash Scripting Engine to Mozilla

[Adam Churvis]

Among other things, it means that when the time comes (relatively soon), Adobe will most likely wash their hands clean of ColdFusion via the open source route as well, rather than by trying to dump it on another company.   But it most likely also signifies that Adobe realizes its Flash-centric development model and tools cannot keep pace with Microsoft's XAML-based offerings.  When you compare the two, Flash-based development looks like an unwieldy cobbled together tinkertoy.  And there just isn't enough Adobe funding available to change that in any significant way, so they "give it up to the people" and let them join in for free.   Respectfully, Adam Phillip Churvis Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX 7 Developer BlueDragon Alliance Founding Committee Get advanced intensive Master-level training in C# & ASP.NET 2.0 for ColdFusion Developers at ProductivityEnhancement.com ----- Original Message ----- From: Precia To: discussion@acfug.org Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2006 4:42 PM Subject: [ACFUG Discuss] Adobe Donating Flash Scripting Engine to Mozilla Adobe has donated the Flash scripting engine code to Mozilla. The announcement was made at the Web 2.0 conference. Would someone enlighten me on the big picture of this gesture. Precia ------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, manage your profile @ http://www.acfug.org?fa=login.edituserform For more info, see http://www.acfug.org/mailinglists Archive @ http://www.mail-archive.com/discussion%40acfug.org/ List hosted by http://www.fusionlink.com ------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, manage your profile @ http://www.acfug.org?fa=login.edituserform For more info, see http://www.acfug.org/mailinglists Archive @ http://www.mail-archive.com/discussion%40acfug.org/ List hosted by FusionLink -------------------------------------------------------------