[thelist] Interesting news / Allaire and Macromedia to merge

[John Dowdell]

At 2:45 PM 1/16/1, aardvark wrote:
> so, what happens to all the ASP support that Drumbeat brought to
> the table?  is that gonna fall away?  are we gonna be stuck with CF
> exclusively here?  handy Flash utilities that are CF-centric?

Heh, ya'll sure are fast.... ;-)  (And howdy, Raymond! 8)

I'm not up on details yet either, but I think the consensus reality is that
there are *multiple* technologies that web developers are using. These
customer demands drive the tool developers. Open toolchests usually beat
"not-invented-here".

More news soon... I'm still absorbing things myself. Looks like fun.


At 2:52 PM 1/16/1, McCreath_David wrote:
> Do we have any Drumbeat users on thelist?

Elemental's Drumbeat was retired a year or so ago, after the Elemental
development team put together Dreamweaver UltraDev, which offers a common
front end to multiple middleware solutions (ASP, JSP, and CFML). The
macromedia.ultradev newsgroup is very active these days.

jd





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