I have been reading a lot about how flash development/design had died, and as jQuery and in the near future html5 comes out, will this start to push Adobe/Coldfusion away from flash towards less product linking?
I mean, I love coldfusion, and want that to continue to grow, however, if Adobe only bought Coldfusion from Macromedia, so they can bundle flash and coldfusion together, does the death of flash mean the death of coldfusion?
http://topnews.us/content/221385-jobs-says-adobes-flash-waning-and-had-its-day
http://aext.net/2010/03/javascript-jquery-killing-flash-tutorial-jquery-plugin/
I really don’t mind if Flash dies, I do mind greatly if coldfusion does.
Is the success of Flash linked to Coldfusion? If so, why? or why not?
The purpose of this isn’t to start some war about flash pro’s and con’s. I was only worried that Adobe would cause problems for Coldfusion, if flash had some market/financial problems.
That was my main concern…
And no I am not anti-flash…
But my financial sanity depends on Coldfusion being a success, so that is why I stated my question. Because I WANT EVERYONE ELSE’S OPINION OF THIS SITUATION.
Thank You.
See my comment on your question (the question should be community wiki & may be closed as not programming related)… but for grins, I’ll bite.
ColdFusion is in no danger of being cut off; least of all from any failures of the Flash platform. Quite the contrary to what you hint at, Adobe continues to invest boatloads of money into Flash and Flex — see recent developments with Flash Player 10.1, including a mobile-optimized runtime that will run on pretty much every platform except the iPlatform. Creative Suite 5 was just released, including Flash Professional, a significant investment to be sure. Then there’s Flex, which won’t run without the Flash runtime, but also continues to be invested in, as seen with the recent release of Flash Builder 4 (the successor to Flex Builder 3).
Aside from what is going on in the Flash platform (a client-side platform), ColdFusion (a server-side platform) just released version 9, and has a roadmap out through version 11, and Adobe just shipped a new IDE for developing with the language (CF Builder). One of ColdFusion’s many strengths is in being the glue that brings together all sorts of other technologies. It integrates with Exchange, pop/smtp/imap, Sharepoint, .Net assemblies, Java, LiveCycle, BlazeDS, Solr, (and the list goes on and on) natively, as well as providing gateways to interact with XMPP, SMS, and more or less anything else you could possibly think of.
While there are some ties between the platforms, for example: using Flex Data Services in Flex 4 and Flash Builder 4 is easiest with ColdFusion, I don’t really see what one has to do with the other, at least in terms of the failures of one affecting the success of the other.
It makes a lot of sense for Adobe to make two of their products work better together than either of them work with anybody else’s products. That drives adoption and sales of one based on the other — it’s just smart business.
But no, the success of ColdFusion does not depend on the success of the Flash Platform.