"Unfortunately, I can see the writing on the wall for CF unless Adobe adopts a DRAMATIC pricing reduction strategy. Plain and simply put, with ..NET and Mono in the market, CF can no longer increase market share whilst continuing to maintain / increase their pricing. They're not the only game in town and they need to start acting like it."
I usually don't chime in on these predictions since they are usually just "gut feelings". But, several people at my location NEVER thought our AS400 would go away, but guess what? It sure the heck is. It's even being replaced by such proprietary software that it actually makes Microsoft appear to be open-source. I wish I could recall how many years (a decade, I guess) that CF has been declared to be "on its way out". Interestingly enough, we installed some .Net apps recently and although they are pretty good, there are quite a few bugs brought forth by the ..Net framework. They are slower than Blackboard (a slow-ass beast in its own way) and they have too many prerequisites on the OS. Of course, I'm generalizing on the .Net bashing, but that's what everyone else does with CF and PHP and Java. I will agree that I think Adobe should better market CF. I don't think the cost is that big of an issue. Take a look at IBM's WebSphere. It's terribly expensive, but they still sell that product. They just do a better job at marketing the app server. My wish: From now on, let this list be limited to CF support and technologies. Let us never hear another word that CF is dead/dying. When Michael D shuts this list down, then we will worry. M!ke ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:254763 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
