Ok It's out, there will be millions of posts, the 25% increase in price has me pissed off.It's a good product so if your on standard you aint going to loose, but there is no reduction either.If you are on Enterprise, i'd suggest boycotting the price hike and purcasing standard, the feature set is not worth the price difference.

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.

After reading a Blog Entry of Ray Camden, in a general comment, he made this statement."CF is not OO. CF should NOT be OO. And lastly, I pray to God that CF never becomes OO."I didn't agree, I actually think ColdFusion is OO, and thought that view especially from Ray was odd, then I thought, well perhaps I have it wrong, perhaps CF is not OO and i'm the only one who thinks it is. So I ran a Survey, posted to both cftalk and cfaussie.The results are quite interesting.1.

When upgrading to ColdFusion 8 i'm unsure if I should move of Standard and go to Enterprise. It's a low volumne site we host, and allways will be as it's specifically for a set of customers for a period of time.I'd say that our current ColdFusion 7 Standard serves us prety well, there are a about 20-30 instances of our application with probably no more than 10-20 concurrent users across all instances at any one point in time.So is it worth it?

I noticed in playing with ColdFusion 8 that it generates a whole lot LESS whitespace than in previous versions. This is even before I attempted to optimise it with white space compression etc.I always thought it's shouldn't be hard to fix, haven't seen it posted anywhere. I wish there was a complete list of every little change in CF8 somewhere.

There is some debate as to the release date of ColdFusion 8. Most think it will be 1st August 2007. Some would like to think it would be released on 08/08/08.But I have heard that the actual release might be exactly when they always said it would be, mid year. Just in case your not clear, that's 1st July 2007.Now time will tell I guess and I always take these things with a grain of salt. But now I'm excited as I can start using it.

LiveDocs really irk me, the docs themselves are ok, but the ability for users to leave comments at the bottom is really a good idea gone wrong.I think the point of the comments should be to highlight an error or ommision.People are asking general forum style questions here, and what's worse sometimes getting answers. Here's how it should workUser comments on error or ommision, someone (moderator) reviews, if not appropiate then removes comment.

Well this one is once again my reading of the smiles and comments at an open CF IDE discussion. Here is where I think it is and no way reflects where I wanted it to go or actually where I thought it would go. Adobe will provide a Commercial Eclipse based IDE that is slick and packaged and NOT free. Just like the Flex model, after listening to all the input and feedback on different options I actually think this is a sound solution.

Ok first the disclaimer, no one said we would get this, but when the questions were asked and the CF team all blush and smile, you get a nice picture.

CF8 sounds like it's going to blow our socks off. They hinted at a lot of new features, so many infact that they said we would be very suprised. A couple key features shown Create instances of .NET classes Extensions to Javacast byte, short + char New Server Monitor Boasts an eloborate Flex UI and all runs from a new cfc ServerMonitor.cfc where all the info lives, so you can talk API to it. Too many features shown in this one to mention, but it looks great.