This is why I strongly believe that Adobe should move the CFML Engine into the Open Source market, the others(Railo/openBD etc.) can decide to help Adobe improve this or even get more support from the community by doing this.
The language itself would be up to date, and released more often. The rest of ColdFusion that makes life a bit easier can be modularized, which would allow Adobe to focus more on that than the actual engine. Providing better PDF support, Reports etc., would be an area that Adobe can then begin releasing more modules and better improved modules over time. I maintain that this should have happened a long time ago, the core CFML Engine should come with no restrictions on threads etc and Adobe can still package this up with an Enterprise package support program for those who wish to spend the money for that much needed support. But the CFML Engine should be released into the open source market, so it can grow at the same rate as other technologies and languages and not be hindered by a 2 year turn around for updates, patches and enhancements. As this is not a good thing for this language in any way shape or form, it will just keep ColdFusion behind other languages. Wishful thinking I know, but Adobe must know that they could provide more this way and provide better modules/plugins into other applications they own. Like getting the server side to run scripts to do photo manipulation with template scripts into PhotoShop. The imagination of what could be achieved with modules and the rest of Adobes suite of Applications will become endless as they can release that module when it is ready, and not be hindered by other modules. Adobe are you listening? You have a suite of Applications that no other language can leverage of, but you are bogged down by long release cycles that see very little integration into the server for you applications suite. On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 12:31 PM, Dale Fraser <d...@fraser.id.au> wrote: > > The reason it isn't main stream, is the cost, Adobe can argue this however > they like, but if ColdFusion were free 10+ years ago, I think ColdFusion > would be mainstream now. > > It's too late now, even if made free, it would need to both be free and > heavily marketed, which cost wise probably doesn't make sense. > > > Regards > Dale Fraser > > http://dale.fraser.id.au > http://cfmldocs.com > http://learncf.com > http://flexcf.com > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "cfaussie" group. To post to this group, send email to cfaus...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cfaussie+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cfaussie?hl=en.
