Here is another view: - Adobe does not tell conference providers who can and can not sponsor.
- New Atlanta is not viewed as a threat to Adobe. - I personally want OpenBD to be successful and tried my best to show the community that two open source CFML engines can coexist. However, Vince detracted that point by commenting: "'the incredible amount of work people are putting into the (OpenBD) project for _zero_ financial gain' is being done primarily by New Atlanta employees who are being paid to work on OpenBD." Drawing a direct and active connection between New Atlanta and OpenBD (not to mention writing off the donated work done by community). - Based on our estimates, Railo has experienced more recent commercial success than New Atlanta. However, even when combined with New Atlanta, the impact is not great enough to warrant any concern over lost business. Adobe remains focused on developer acquisition from external communities (which is what our community demands). - As you can see from Vince's post there is still much animosity from New Atlanta towards Adobe. If the relations between Railo and Adobe are more positive, then I can only point to the personalities involved. In general, New Atlanta needs to stop blaming Adobe for everything that ills it. If a ColdFusion conference rejects a sponsor who offers "migration solutions from ColdFusion applications to ASP.NET", maybe it's because they don't want to help that cause, not because of some sinister Adobe plot. -Adam ColdFusion Product Manager at Adobe On Nov 13, 3:26 pm, Vince Bonfanti <[email protected]> wrote: > Here's one view: > > - Adobe considers New Atlanta to be a threat to their ColdFusion business > due to the commercial success of BlueDragon (especially BD.NET, and due > to high-profile customer wins such as MySpace). > - Adobe associates OpenBD with New Atlanta, and therefore does not want > OpenBD to be successful. > - Adobe does not consider Railo to be a threat because they have not yet > had any real commercial success (at least not on the same scale as New > Atlanta and BlueDragon). > - Adobe wants to use Railo as a counter-weight to diminish the influence > of OpenBD (and--in their minds--New Atlanta). > > There's already been some anti-Railo rhetoric from Adobe--it's fairly > predictable what will happen if they ever start to view Railo as a threat to > their ColdFusion business. I've heard through the grapevine that Adobe has > already threatened third-party vendors who make their products compatible > with Railo. > > > > On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 2:39 PM, Jason King <[email protected]> wrote: > > That's not cool. I wonder why Railo but not OpenBD? -- Open BlueDragon Public Mailing List http://www.openbluedragon.org/ http://twitter.com/OpenBlueDragon mailing list - http://groups.google.com/group/openbd?hl=en !! save a network - please trim replies before posting !!
