On Wednesday 18 Jun 2008, Matt Williams wrote: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > http://www.pbell.com/index.cfm/2008/6/18/The-Future-of-ColdFusion-Adobes- > >CF-United-Keynote > > I think the free for academic use is a great idea. According to Ray's > blog it is to solve this: "Biggest problem is lack of available > developers."
But the lead time here is *huge*, and of course there are still plenty of alternative, free, web development languages to choose to teach - and of course the pretending-to-be-free like Silverlight. > Also on Ray's blog he said Adam Lehman announced integration of > Hibernate into the next version of CF. This is probably good too. Depends how it works in practice. Does <cfcomponent type="orm" dsn="foo" table="bar"/> make a DAO ? Active record ? All of them ? In what package structure ? Someone mentioned it made Hibernate XML - how is this of help ? > shop owner. They were primarily a CF shop but have decided to do all > new development with Ruby on Rails. I'm only vaguely familiar with > Rails. What is so attractive about Rails that they would do this? I have no idea, now CF is free (Railo/OpenBD), esp. given the time it'll take to retrain and retool. > And what does Adobe / the CF community need to do to step it up? Make noise :-) Adobe now have a EMEA sales contact, which should really, really help in business - but the rest of us can make sure no one ever writes a 'ColdFusion is dead' article ever again. -- Tom Chiverton **************************************************** This email is sent for and on behalf of Halliwells LLP. Halliwells LLP is a limited liability partnership registered in England and Wales under registered number OC307980 whose registered office address is at Halliwells LLP, 3 Hardman Square, Spinningfields, Manchester, M3 3EB. A list of members is available for inspection at the registered office. Any reference to a partner in relation to Halliwells LLP means a member of Halliwells LLP. Regulated by The Solicitors Regulation Authority. CONFIDENTIALITY This email is intended only for the use of the addressee named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not the addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in nor copy it nor inform any person other than Halliwells LLP or the addressee of its existence or contents. If you have received this email in error please delete it and notify Halliwells LLP IT Department on 0870 365 2500. For more information about Halliwells LLP visit www.halliwells.com. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;203748912;27390454;j Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:307660 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
