That makes perfect sense, thanks for the information... really is
a different way of thinking. I heard somewhere that ColdFusion 10 was
going to change their client side JavaScript (Ext JS) to jQuery. But I
doubt that will happen with their new release, which will go along
with what you've said (locking in versions). I've read that they wont
even do simple changes like replacing CKEditor with a newer edition.

Which brings up a question... what open-source libraries does
OpenBD use? I'm guessing the newest version of Apache POI for the
spreadsheet manipulation? Probably another open source library for
charting, etc. I came across this the other day: 
http://www.docx4java.org/trac/docx4j and
it looks like something that OpenBD could take advantage of.
Looks like it is a Java clone of Microsoft's Open XML SDK which
can manipulate the new XML formats of Word, Excel, and Powerpoint
files. I know that Apache POI's Word manipulation is currently dead.

One thing that I think it a very nifty and cool feature of OpenBD that
will draw people to it is the Desktop version. Nothing quite compares
to it in the CFML world with how easy it is to work with. I tried
using Railo the other day, and it is just a complete 180 from OpenBD/
ACF... I really had no idea what I was doing.

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