look for allaire defections. that will give you a clue.
"pan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I do not think that the acquisition of Allaire by Macromedia is a good
thing
> for Cold Fusion developers. I can come up with all kinds of negative
> scenarios about what this will do to CF. When a "graphics tool" company
> acquires a development platform, the development platform does not always
> fair too well.
>
> Consider that, if Allaire was not in some sort of trouble, it would not
have
> been "merged."
>
> I have been concerned about the viability of the CF platform for about a
> year. Now, I am even more concerned. I am seriously starting to consider
> dropping the beloved CF platform, and head towards ASP+, COM and .NET --
> Microsoft is not likely to be "acquired" any time in the near future.
>
> Richard Colman
>
You're not alone in your thoughts.
No more Allaire.
The stock went up 23%, for no readily apparent reason,
days ***before*** the "merger" was announced.
The Boston office will be run by Macromedians.
Jeremy, though still CTO for the Allaire division, reports to a
Macromedian.
Macromedia sold off previously acquired products like Poser
last year (a whole slew of products).
The plan Allaire drew up for CF>5 may not mean anything anymore.
Maybe the focus of CF will move from rdbms interfacing to
flashy :) web presentations with multiplex Mac-like developer
gui thingies.
~*~ busy right now building FreeBSD boxes and installing apache/PHP
Pan
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