You seem to be overlooking the very basic fact that NA is well aware of the fact that anything they add may well have compatibility issues as new versions of CF come out. I don't think you'll ever hear this complaint coming from NA themselves; they knew it going in. The complaint comes from people who use NA's CFML engine. These people "should" have known that this sort of problem was very probable to occur. Adobe would be ill advised to plan any of their development of CF features around the additions other companies have made to their CFML engines.
>From now on, I want you to know that it's very likely you'll run into similar >issues of compatibility between BD and CF. Complain to the people at NA and >I'm certain that they'll tell you the same thing, with some added thought that >they do their best to minimize the occurrences... --Ferg ----- Original Message ---- From: Tanguy Rademakers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: CF-Talk <cf-talk@houseoffusion.com> Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 7:22:09 AM Subject: Re: Bluedragon = open source >Adobe is not selling a CFML engine. Adobe is selling ColdFusion. Adobe >hasn't standardized CFML, and has no responsibility to any other vendor >selling CFML engines. You can argue that those other vendors likewise have >no responsibility to Adobe, and I'd agree, but if you build a product that >provides compatibility with someone else's product as its chief feature, the >onus is on you to provide that compatibility. Nobody could argue that NA haven't made every reasonable effort to ensure compatibility between BlueDragon and CFMX - as you point out, that's the business they're in. But when Adobe willingly breaks compatibility with BlueDragon by implementing a BD feature in a non-compatible manner, i think it is biased to claim that NA is responsible for resolving the resulting incompatibility. Most of us get upset when Microsoft abuses its dominant market position like this, i for one fail to see how Adobe is any different in this case. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:301056 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
