When Adobe took over Macromedia, I was a happy camper, when pitching ColdFusion solutions, people who haven't heard of it, say who make ColdFusion, now I could say Adobe.
And everyone as heard of Adobe, so they say nice and everyone is happy.
But in the back of my mind, when every new take over I'm thinking I hope they don't stuff it up, hope they improve it, push it and ultimately sell it.
Now many months later, I think that Adobe have done a really good job, first the ColdFusion 8 Beta product is excellent, it has been prominently featured on Labs, it is in the Labs Most Popular section, it was also featured smack in the middle of the Adobe home page for a while, and still is shown there as text under the Labs section of the home page.
The beta program has been very active, the CF team has been very responsive and quick to fix bugs and the marketing team has done a good job of communicating new features, speed improvements etc.
So now it's time for the sell bit, it's probably going to be released any day now, my guess is on or before 8/8/07. With that will come the most important bit of the puzzle to sell this great product, the release of pricing information.
Adobe have done this well for other products, managed to get me to upgrade from Studio 8 to CS3 because the pricing options were good, so I'm hope full that Adobe will get the pricing right also and knock every one's socks of in the process.
17 July 2007
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Next Monday! :)
Forta posted something about the release party on 7/31/7
Most bugs fixed? Sadly, if talking CF8, no they were not - as few as 40% of reported for the RC have been fixed. The rest...
@Anonymous1, Hope so
@Anonymous2, That's just not right, I have been watching and saying that 60% of reported bugs have gone unfixed is simply not true.
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