>Part of the reason for Adobe Coldfusion 8 having features that the open >source competitors do not is commercial licensing. Adobe either owns the >license for some of the cool new tag features or paid the bucks to use a >third party license. The open source products may not have the money to pay >out to buy those licenses. NewAtlanta's Bluedragon may have a better shot at >being fully compatable on their next release since they have commercial >licensing for Bluedragon. > >Also, timing of releases plays a part in feature comparisons. > >Example, Bluedragon 7 was released before Coldfusion 8 but after Coldfusion >7. Thus Bluedragon 7 had features that Coldfusion 7 did not but now >Coldfusion 8 has leaped ahead those features and with newer features. In >addition Bluedragon had CFTHREAD and CFIMAGE before Coldfusion and thus >Bluedragon's implimentation is different than Coldfusion's implimentations >of those tags that were later added to Coldfusion 8. > >BlueDragon now has an open source version and they are looking for community >developers. Feel free to jump in and help. > >Also, I did not address the other flavs of CFML engines since I am not >familar with them. I only use Coldfusion and Bluedragon. I was the lucky >one at the ColderFusion UG (Twin Cities, MN) to win a fully licensed copy of >Bluedragon. So I use it. > >Wil Genovese >
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