I have been thinking about Bolt and what it will offer. And while I'm keen on the idea of an official ColdFusion IDE, I was wondering why Adobe are doing this and why now.
I will almost certainly adopt Bolt, not just me but our team here where I work. But it will come down to one thing, price!
If they charge for Bolt, which I think they will, it had better be worth it, after all I currently use CFEclipse on Flex Builder, and that works fine, so what are the benefits for the dollars.
One line of thinking is that ColdFusion might change the pricing model, charge for the IDE so that the server can be less expensive or free. This appeals to me if they do this, I prefer this model, it is somehow easier to spend $X hundred dollars for each developer rather than X thousands of dollars for each server.
If Adobe decide to keep ColdFusion pricing as is and still charge for Bolt, then I think they have misread the market. Given cost cuts in business and the competitors having free offereings, Adobe need to make some brave moves on pricing, and they need to make them now.