Coldfusion is not dead. I'm not saying this just because I program in CF but because I have programmed in many languages and they all have its advantages and disadvantages. Languages like FORTRAN and Pascal are still being used. Of course not as much as Java, CF or VB and that's because the technology has changed. Everything is Internet based and older languages are not built for these platforms but they do have their own areas of applications and that's why they are still being used. Anyway I'm not going to go on with defending CF. I will let CF handle that by itself. Looks like Macromedia had a good quarter.
“Adobe has been very successful in selling into the enterprise. This can only help ColdFusion going forward," says Dave Mendels, SVP of Adobe's new Enterprise & Developer Solutions. 'Scorpio' is still on course, Mendels confirms, and the ColdFusion product development team is already hard at work devising the best way to harness synergies between CF and Adobe’s LiveCycle products.
The ColdFusion product team is already working on the next great release of ColdFusion codenamed Scorpio, a project that was started before the merger was announced, and one that has continued throughout the transition. In addition, Adobe has been very successful in selling into the enterprise. This can only help ColdFusion going forward.
ColdFusion fits squarely in the new Enterprise and Developer Solutions Business Unit. Here the team will focus on leveraging the combined LiveCycle, Flex and ColdFusion technologies to provide a rich set of technologies for building and deploying both Web and document-based solutions. The developer market has of course always been a key market for Macromedia and is now also a key market for Adobe.
First, there are capabilities in both ColdFusion and Adobe’s LiveCycle products that could provide mutual benefit to each other. These include reporting, workflow, document generation, forms design, charting and graphing and more. The respective product teams are now working together to determine how to best leverage these capabilities in both product lines.
Then there are some obvious areas like PDF document generation. Given that the PDF document generation was introduced, in its most basic form in the last major release of ColdFusion, it will be natural to extend this capability to leverage the rich set of capabilities offered in PDF. Things like digital signatures, dynamic forms, workflow and more. Adobe also offers a forms designer product that could potentially offer ColdFusion a more productive forms design capability.
ColdFusion MX7 has proven to be an incredibly successful product. This success is primarily the result of combining a proven solid architecture with features and technologies that solve real problems. Incidentally, the re-architecture that was ColdFusion MX means that ColdFusion and LiveCycle are built on the same Java foundation – the pieces fit together really nicely.
The ColdFusion product team is cooking up some exciting new capabilities for Scorpio and looks forward to once again providing new, critical advancements in what developers can build and how they build them.
ColdFusion MX7 has proven to be an incredibly successful product. This success is primarily the result of combining a proven solid architecture with features and technologies that solve real problems. Incidentally, the re-architecture that was ColdFusion MX means that ColdFusion and LiveCycle are built on the same Java foundation—the pieces fit together really nicely. ColdFusion's Future is Secure.
