Just as long as its not Carnival Cruise Lines
"Braver, Ben:" wrote:
> Jennifer,
>
> Hear, Hear! Extremely well-put and totally right on post, IMHO.
> I agree it would be stupid for MM to buy Allaire just to throw the assets
> away.
>
> C'mon gang, quit acting like the ship is sinking -- it's just being bought
> by a new cruise line, and the Captain will have a new Admiral to set his
> strategic course...
>
> Ben
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jennifer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2001 8:36 AM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: RE: Hmmm NO more Allaire
>
> At 09:32 AM 1/17/01 -0500, you wrote:
> > Well I will put my two cents in on this subject and then won't say
> >anything else about it. The merger could be a bad thing, it could end up
> >being a good thing, but I won't lose one moment of sleep because I am
> >confident in my ability as a developer to roll with the times. If MM buries
> >CF then I'll learn other languages that don't cost money to get. I'll
> >broaden my horizons more, not that I am not trying to do that now, but we
> >are developers. We shouldn't be held down by one platform or one
> programming
> >language. CF wasn't going to be around forever, this deal just cemented
> that
> >fact, so as a community we either roll with the punches or we stop
> >programming.
>
> Frankly, all this bad speculation about CF not existing in the future even
> though it would be a bad business move for Macromedia and that Jeremy
> Allaire is Macromedia's CTO as part of the deal, shows me how much faith CF
> developers really have in the product. Speculation like this is what causes
> a panic and makes people go with other products. If the developers don't
> have enough faith in the product to say "You know, this product has really
> done wonders for my business and I think it would be stupid for Macromedia
> to simply trash it" why would someone else want to use it? Furthermore, why
> would Macromedia continue with the product if the intended market of
> regular users is ready to bail on it on a moment's notice?
>
> It's good to have other skills and it's good to have something to fall back
> on regardless of the status of a particular product, but if the whole
> ColdFusion community goes completely paranoid about this people are going
> to wonder why. Macromedia is not stupid and they wouldn't buy a company for
> $360,000,000 (I wish I had that in my accounts) and then throw out most of
> the company's products-- products that were not even really in competition
> with their own.
>
> So everybody just chill out. This may have some bad consequences but those
> will probably be small things, not big things like "Let's abandon
> ColdFusion and Spectra."
>
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