![]() ![]() "Traditionally, people relied on ColdFusion to build applications with static HTML front ends. "This release is about Adobe's DNA being injected into a tested and proven way of building Web apps," said Tim Bruntel, senior product marketing manager for ColdFusion. The public beta of the product has been available on the Adobe Labs Web site for several months, and the San Jose, Calif.-based company is reporting more than 14,000 downloads since May. Adobe acquired the technology when it purchased Macromedia in 2005. ColdFusion 8 provides an expanded set of tools and technologies aimed at developers building dynamic Web sites and rich Internet applications (RIAs).ĬoldFusion 8 (code named "Scorpio") is the first release of the 12-year-old solution as an Adobe product, and there's a lot of interest in it among the installed customer base. She would not comment on actual revenue figures for ColdFusion.Īdobe officials cited analyst estimates of 400,000 developers using ColdFusion.Adobe Systems is set to release a new version of its ColdFusion software development environment today (July 30). "Under Adobe, we saw the strongest quarters we've seen yet with ColdFusion since the acquisition," said Kristen Schofield, senior product manager for Adobe ColdFusion. Meanwhile, ColdFusion, which Adobe acquired when it merged with Macromedia in December 2005, has been holding its own, revenue-wise. Originally based on C and C++, ColdFusion was rewritten in Java several years ago to leverage the growing importance of Java on the server and to add features, including server monitoring, said Forta. Voe and Voe basically runs its whole site on ColdFusion, which serves as an application server, Mitchell said. "We'll definitely give that a test once it comes out because our servers actually are 64-bit architecture at the moment, but it's running in 32-bit" mode, said Mitchell. Support for 64-bit Linux would be a plus for Voe and Voe, which runs a flavor of Red Hat's Linux, Mitchell said. Voe and Voe has paid about $6,000 as a one-time license fee for ColdFusion, said Mitchell. "The price would be my only complaint in comparison to something like PHP, which is essentially free," he said. Mitchell said he has worked with PHP.īut PHP does offer an advantage over ColdFusion as far as price, Mitchell said. Mitchell said he believes ColdFusion offers better performance than PHP. ![]() A benefit of ColdFusion as opposed to those rivals is the ability to generate applications with just a few lines of code, Forta said.Ī user of ColdFusion, Jeff Mitchell, CTO at Voe and Voe, runs an online marketplace for content for mobile devices. Work also is under way on the planned Centaur release of ColdFusion, featuring continued integration with other Adobe technologies as well as productivity enhancements.ĬoldFusion is positioned against other server-side platforms, including PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor), ASP.Net and JavaServer Pages. ColdFusion 8 already supports the 64-bit Solaris OS platform. ![]() ![]() "With the 'updater,' your code will run as is, but it will be a native 64-bit application now," Forta said. ColdFusion applications currently will run on those platforms only in 32-bit mode. ![]()
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