We received an email from Stewart Robinson at Economist.com and The Economist is now running on Adobe ColdFusion 8. He writes, "I thought I'd let you know that Economist.com has finished it's port to ColdFusion 8 across the whole live cluster and we have seen a reduction in page generation time of around 20% which is amazing and totally unexpected...the whole thing is ridiculously stable. I am amazed. Feel free to use this mail in any form you like." Check it out here at http://www.economist.

ColdFusion defined a new market space when it was released in 1995. Today, the web application server holds an important place in Adobe's developer product portfolio. The following is an "Inside Adobe" article published today on the Adobe employee intranet, replusblished here with permission. This was written up for the Adobe Intranet as part of a series highlighting the company?s 25-year history.

If you weren't aware, the ColdFusion team is currently hard at work adding native 64-bit platform support for ColdFusion 8 (which was code-named "Scorpio") for Windows, Linux and Leopard (OSX 10.5) If you are interested in 64-bit support, would like to get your hands on the bits ASAP and are willing to participate in the pre-release program for these platforms, we have opened the gates for enrollment HERE.

Just posted Nov 1, this is a great little 7-minute interview with Tim Buntel, CF's Sr Product Marketing Manager on 'What's New' in Adobe ColdFusion 8. Check it out: http://www.builderau.com.au/program/coldfusion/soa/Getting-to-know-ColdFusion-8/0,339028378,339283179,00.htm Go CF!

In the TechRepublic.com/ZDNet article by Brian Kotek just posted on October 26, 2007, he describes Adobe ColdFusion 8 as: "...a force to be reckoned with in the application server space. I?ve been using ColdFusion for 10 years, and I haven?t seen the community this excited about a new release in a long time. The recent release is by far the most compelling version since they moved to the Java platform ? and possibly even the most compelling version ever." ...

From the Press Release: "This significant upgrade has been fully tested on ColdFusion 8 with stellar performance improvements noted across the entire application. Average page time and requests per second turned in a whopping 50% improvement from version 7 to 8." The Press Release from FuseTalk is HERE.

I've been remiss in not getting this blogged earlier, but we've released some fixes for some late breaking bugs in the Final ColdFusion 8.0 product release here: http://www.adobe.com/go/kb402466 Additionally, folks having any of the following three CFDOCUMENT issues can apply this ColdFusion 8.0 CFDOCUMENT patch here: http://www.adobe.com/go/kb402584 I apologize for letting these get into the Final release, but at least we have the patches out there now! We'll try to stay as repsonsive as we can.

I have no comment on this, other than to say....we love Ben, he obviously loves Adobe ColdFusion, and this appears to use ColdFusion 8's imaging capabilities :) http://www.bennadel.com/coldfusion/ecards.

We've recently posted an FAQ for JRun that details the end of new feature development plan and answers some key questions for JRun customers. More details here: http://www.adobe.com/products/jrun/productinfo/faq/eod/ An excerpt: "After careful consideration and analysis of both the server marketplace and customer feedback, Adobe plans to discontinue new feature development for Adobe® JRun? software, the fast, affordable and reliable J2EE compatible application server.

Below is a an internal Adobe employee intranet article that was posted with the launch of ColdFusion 8. It provides a bit of a "behind the scenes" peek into the making of ColdFusion 8 and contains a few notable quotes from some of the key Adobe executives that helped make ColdFusion 8 possible. An internal Adobe staff writer interviewed a bunch of us on the ColdFusion 8 team, the following is the result, and I thought you might find it an interesting read. Enjoy.