New Atlanta, the makers of BlueDragon CF server announced the release of the J2EE version of their server to the open source community. A commercial version will still be available and NA will still have development control . Additionally the .NET version will remain closed.
This can be good news for ColdFusion since one of the greatest arguments against it has been the price it costs against”free” alternatives. Even if I don’t agree with that being a valid argument, with this move things will change. Unfortunately BlueDragon isn’t 100% compatible with CF and several advanced features delivered in CF8 are not available in BD.
While I think this is a positive move by NA, I think it should have been made by Adobe. Their commitment to open source is becoming more and more of a fact and I think CF becoming open source would, in fact ,be very positive. But lets wait and see, who knows what Adobe holds in its sleeve. That being said, I think the value one most pay for ColdFusion is intirely justifiable and I even think it’s a good business all in all.
