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What the Adobe buyout means for ColdFusion

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What the Adobe buyout means for ColdFusion

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    1. What the Adobe buyout means for ColdFusion Rick Mason, SeedChoices

    2. The deal Adobe to acquire Macromedia for $3.4 billion Adobe has 4,000 employees Macromedia has 1,450 employees

    3. Here we go again

    4. Déjŕ vu all over again They don't understand developers, and so they won't understand ColdFusion. ColdFusion does not fit into their product space, they'll have to kill it off. They are not as approachable and community involved. Wasn’t true when Macromedia acquired ColdFusion, will now prove different?

    5. Meanwhile back at the ranch ColdFusion had the biggest quarter in almost 5 years “We expect it [ColdFusion] to be a growth product well into the future" Quarter to quarter sales were up 45% Comments from Macromedia CEO, Stephen Elop, to Wall Street

    6. What does Ben Forta say? If CFMX7 were not doing well I'd be worried (with or without acquisition announcements). But CFMX7 is doing very well, sales have exceeded expectations, and customers are very happy with the product. So the ColdFusion team is already working on what comes next, planning the next release. There is no reason for that to change.

    7. Kevin Lynch, Macromedia architect ColdFusion and J2EE are "the core DNA of our company“ “The upcoming takeover will not change anything for developers using those technologies”

    8. A few products overlap Dreamweaver – GoLive Fireworks – Photoshop Freehand - Illustrator

    9. One reason for combining forces Microsoft is targeting Flash with Avalon Microsoft is targeting PDF with Metro Together they have a better chance to prevail New Adobe now too large to be acquired by MS

    10. Wired’s Webmonkey weighs in You can bet that there will be total cross-functionality once the company irons the kinks out between all of the applications. Granted, that could take a year or longer, but it's going to be an awesome party when it happens.

    11. Predictions I Macromedia user groups and bloggers will colonize Adobe just as Allaire did Macromedia The cfform tag will acquire the ability to create pdf forms enabling Adobe to sell enterprise class PDF solutions to big business Dreamweaver will absorb GoLive

    12. Predictions II Freehand will be open sourced by Adobe Flash paper will disappear from the desktop but be reborn in the phone/pda market There will two versions of Studio, one for print and the other for web developers

    13. The future of ColdFusion?

    14. Questions or comments? Rick@SeedChoices.com

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