I think you guys are way off-base with your comments about Macromedia's
acquisition of Allaire. Having worked very closely with both companies
directly on joint technology initiatives (Harpoon), fused their products
together for consulting projects (intranet for T-Rowe Price using CF,
Spectra, Flash, Generator), and developed much of their training course
materials (Flash, Generator, Spectra) there's no question that the joining
of these two great companies will result in a web solutions vendor
powerhouse.
Will Macromedia kill off CF? Of course not! Consider the following:
-Macromedia spent a great deal of effort developing visual tools for CF
(Dreamweaver UltraDev)
-Macromedia currently has a hole in their lineup for an application
server--filled nicely by CF
-Their flagship server product, Macromedia Generator, currently relies on
Allaire's JRUN
-Both Allaire and Macromedia have made a considerable investment in the
Harpoon initiative demonstrating how to link CF and Flash
-Macromedia earlier acquired the LikeMinds personalization system to fill
out their E-Business platform -- to which they can now add Open-Sesame and
add direct hooks to their new app server -- CF!
CF isn't going away -- in fact, with the added resources of Macromedia, I
expect a totally killer integrated e-business development platform is in our
not-so-distant future.
Regards,
Steve Drucker
CEO
Fig Leaf Software
http://www.figleaf.com
-----Original Message-----
From: JayB [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2001 11:09 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: Negative Thoughts
At 06:01 PM 1/16/2001 -0800, you wrote:
>The plan Allaire drew up for CF>5 may not mean anything anymore.
From what I had been hearing on the beta forums, I had thought that 5 was
well under development (isn't release planned for fall 2001?) Would MM kill
something that is so close to release (relatively speaking...) since 6 is
just vaporware right now no?
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