Re: Microsoft rumored to be buying Adobe

I can't imagine it's good for ColdFusion, then again, perhaps it may mean some real advertising and pushing of a great technology. Imagine CF freely bundled with all IIS servers. It could mean a HUGE boom for the CF community. CF.NET would rock. Dave @ Oyova Software http://www.oyova.com

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As Michael D so politely requested, please join this convo in cf-community where it belongs. http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:328866

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> Don't forget Lasso. Wasn't that before ASP? I think so, but it wasn't a Microsoft product. There were thousands of products in that niche before ASP. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ http://training.figleaf.com/ Fig Leaf Software is a Veteran-Owned Small Business (VO

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CF.Net ? -Original Message- From: Jeff Gladnick [mailto:jeff.gladn...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2010 6:10 PM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: Microsoft rumored to be buying Adobe I cant see this as positive in any way for coldfusion. I would imagine it would just be a slow

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07, 2010 9:01 PM To: "cf-talk" Subject: RE: Microsoft rumored to be buying Adobe Don't forget Lasso. Wasn't that before ASP? -Original Message- From: Dave Watts [mailto:dwa...@figleaf.com] Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2010 4:15 PM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: Micr

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Don't forget Lasso. Wasn't that before ASP? -Original Message- From: Dave Watts [mailto:dwa...@figleaf.com] Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2010 4:15 PM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: Microsoft rumored to be buying Adobe > http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2010/10/07/adobe-shares-

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DAYUM! -Original Message- From: Eric Cobb [mailto:cft...@ecartech.com] Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2010 3:59 PM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: Microsoft rumored to be buying Adobe It means that .Net developers will now have a much easier way to connect to things like Exchange, Sharepoint

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Please move this thread over to the community or OT list. Interesting though it is, it's not really of a technical nature. (those who want to argue the point with me are welcome to do so off list). Thank you -- Michael Dinowitz Lead Author - Adobe Coldfusion Anthology http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-

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Nope: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-10-07/reback-says-adobe-purchase-by-microsoft-unlikely-video.html ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/14302721

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Our company has a lot of legacy FoxPro still running. As I understand it, though, support for Visual FoxPro 9 ended April 2010. It is certainly not a living product, despite the fact that Microsoft did release several versions of Visual FoxPro after they bought the line. On 10/7/2010 5:56

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>  > That's not living. That's barely existing. > > May be, but this is more because FoxPro is one generation older (dBase) than > other products on the market now than directly > because of Microsoft. No, this is not true. At the time they acquired FoxPro, it was significantly more advanced in

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>>That's not living. That's barely existing. May be, but this is more because FoxPro is one generation older (dBase) than other products on the market now than directly because of Microsoft. ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anth

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More detailed speculation: http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/07/thinking-through-a-microsoft-adobe-merger/ http://www.electronista.com/articles/10/10/07/microsoft.and.adobe.in.collaborative.talks/ On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 4:42 PM, Jeff Gladnick wrote: > > > http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.co

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> Microsoft bought FoxPro 8 years ago, and Foxpro is still alive. That's not living. That's barely existing. From Wikipedia: "In March 2007, Microsoft announced that there will be no VFP 10, thus making VFP9 (released to manufacturing on December 17, 2004) the last commercial VFP release from Mi

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>>I cant see this as positive in any way for coldfusion. Microsoft bought FoxPro 8 years ago, and Foxpro is still alive. ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Din

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rumored to be buying Adobe Microsoft Photoshop? Investors and the stock market does not make one bit of sense. On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 4:42 PM, Jeff Gladnick wrote: > > > http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2010/10/07/adobe-shares-soar-on-rumor-of-mi crosoft-bid/ > > What's that

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I agree. I don't see this happening. Just sounds like Adobe talking to M$ like they have been about Android and RIM. -Original Message- From: Dave Watts [mailto:dwa...@figleaf.com] Sent: 07 October 2010 22:15 To: cf-talk Subject: Re: Microsoft rumored to be buying Adobe &

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I cant see this as positive in any way for coldfusion. I would imagine it would just be a slow death of coldfusion as it's merged into .net. bleh. ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldf

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Microsoft Photoshop? Investors and the stock market does not make one bit of sense. On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 4:42 PM, Jeff Gladnick wrote: > > > http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2010/10/07/adobe-shares-soar-on-rumor-of-microsoft-bid/ > > What's that mean for Coldfusion!? > >

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> http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2010/10/07/adobe-shares-soar-on-rumor-of-microsoft-bid/ > > What's that mean for Coldfusion!? If this actually happened, I suspect that the product would be divested or discontinued. But I really doubt that this will happen. The only thing that Adobe has that MS

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or the end of BlueDragon as Microsoft will add CFML.NET to the stable :-) On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 10:02 PM, Eric Cobb wrote: > > And Flash + Silverlight = Flashlight. :) > > Thanks, > > Eric Cobb > ECAR Technologies, LLC > http://www.ecartech.com > http://www.cfgears.com > > > > Jeff Gladnick

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And Flash + Silverlight = Flashlight. :) Thanks, Eric Cobb ECAR Technologies, LLC http://www.ecartech.com http://www.cfgears.com Jeff Gladnick wrote: > http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2010/10/07/adobe-shares-soar-on-rumor-of-microsoft-bid/ > > What's that mean for Coldfusion!? > > ~~

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It means that .Net developers will now have a much easier way to connect to things like Exchange, Sharepoint, Excel, and Active Directory. :) Thanks, Eric Cobb ECAR Technologies, LLC http://www.ecartech.com http://www.cfgears.com Jeff Gladnick wrote: > http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2010/

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Nothing probably since the product is ColdFusion. ;) On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 3:42 PM, Jeff Gladnick wrote: > > http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2010/10/07/adobe-shares-soar-on-rumor-of-microsoft-bid/ > > What's that mean for Coldfusion!? > > ~