Attention MM bashers. Jeremy Allaire is the Chief Technology Officer at MM. He is alive and well.
His net worth will rise or fall with the fortunes of MM. ===================================== Douglas White group Manager mailto:doug@;samcfug.org http://www.samcfug.org ===================================== ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Hannum (Ohio University)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2002 6:28 PM Subject: Re: SOT: Sad Day | > I'll back you up. MM has a long history of abandoning products. Everyone | > seems to act like CF is invincible, yet it was sold by Allaire a little | > over a year ago. | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | > Do you think MM will keep CF around if it starts to tank? Phat chance. | > If the software doesn't sail, these captains jump before the women and | > children. I know I'm not the only one who learned Generator. :) | > | | MM bought Allaire, not because there was anything wrong with it, but because | there was so much right with it. When you can do as much and more with CFMX | and Flash MX than you could with Generator, with much less cost and far less | server overhead, why shouldn't you abandon Generator? The cfm/fla marriage | is perfect. Cost to performance and capability, it's positioned to be the | greatest thing since soft butter! If you've read the postings of people who | attended DevCon, you'll notice an extreme optimism among CF'ers. MM is | taking CF & Flash to the lead in a new wave of internet applications. And | the neat part is, MM is making it possible for PHP, ASP and Java to play | too! I was very skeptical when MM purchased Allaire. But they keep showing | me a stronger and stronger commitment. I have no trouble staying with MM. | They've shown that they are making CF one of their flagship products. | | As for dropping a product when it's outlived its useful life, that's just | good business. That does not make a company bad. Generator's life had come | to an end when it became apparent that client side power was practicle with | the advances in Flash. CF is a much better server side solution to power | that. Dropping Generator was not a bad idea on MM's part. It was a very | good idea. Good business. | | Dave | | | | | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm
