Rob Brooks-Bilson has a positive and insiteful view of the deal:
http://www.cfczone.org/blogs/rob/index.cfm?mode=entry&entry=564866F9-F7AF-8F
97-E5095D5FF4305678
A quote:
"#More R&D money. More R&D means more features and functionality in the next
version of ColdFusion.
# Greater PDF support. While this may seem obvious, it's significant.
Currently, CF has PDF integration, but it's fairly basic. With Adobe owning
CF, CF won't have to rely on open source PDF libraries from Apache. Imagine
being able to *fully* control the layout of PDF files with ColdFusion.
Imagine being able to easily leverage the power of PDF forms. Imagine being
able to use advanced PDF features such as workflow. There's a lot that can
be done in this space. If you look around, most major businesses, and nearly
the entire US Government have embraced PDF as the standard for document
sharing. This is huge.
# More selling opportunities for ColdFusion. As I mentioned, Adobe is
already selling to most major companies (and a lot of smaller companies
too). This presents a tremendous opportunity for Adobe to cross-sell
ColdFusion into those organizations.
# Adobe is looking for a way to push content down to mobile devices.
Presumably, Flash is the vehicle. As we all know, when it comes to
connecting Flash to back end applications, Macromedia has always positioned
ColdFusion as the easiest (and least expensive) way to do this. I see Adobe
continuing to capitalize on this."
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Peter Tilbrook
ColdGen Internet Solutions
Manager, ACT and Region ColdFusion Users Group
PO Box 2247
Queanbeyan, NSW, 2620
AUSTRALIA
Telephone: +61-2-628402727
Mobile: +61-0432-897-437
WWW: http://www.coldgen.com/
http://www.actcfug.com/
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