Ahh, but the answer is not that simple on the death of ColdFusion Studio. 1) You cannot buy ColdFusion Studio or its successor, Homesite+, for any price separate from Dreamweaver. 2) There has not been a new feature release of CFS/HS+ for 3 years. 3) There has been no marketing for the product for 2 years. 4) There is no MX version of the product, unlike all of the other developer products from Macromedia. 5) There is no development center at DevNet for CF Studio/Homesite+ 6) There is no additional support for some of the new functionality in CFMX (xml, components, etc), some of which does have additional support in DWMX.
I'd say those were compelling arguments towards the death of ColdFusion Studio. What I hope that folks would do is take the time to go here and provide feedback to Macromedia: http://www.macromedia.com/support/email/wishform/?6213=6 It seems to me that more ground will be gained by requesting enhancements to DW to meet your needs that are currently met in CF Studio, as the above points to a lot more ground to gain in suggesting they revise CF Studio. Not to mention DWMX has come a long way, and doesn't have too much further to go. But in any case, if the lack of a productivity enhancing and supported IDE for CFML bothers you, click the above link and let MM know! Hope this helps, Calvin ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Dinowitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2003 10:41 PM Subject: Re: Homesite + question > > Aside from documentation, any differences are marginal. > > > > Most of the changes are in the configurability area due to the legal issues > > that were in play between Adobe and Macromedia at the time. > Those are the differences I'd like to hear about. Were they corrected in the > updater? Have people using HS+ found that the updater brings it up to the > abilities of Studio when it comes to customization? If someone went into details > on what was changed from Studio to HS+ before updater and then the changes after > the updater then maybe we can put the whole death of studio thing to bed once > and for all. This can only happen with details. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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 Host with the leader in ColdFusion hosting. Voted #1 ColdFusion host by CF Developers. Offering shared and dedicated hosting options. www.cfxhosting.com/default.cfm?redirect=10481 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
