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BlueDragon goes open source

Tags: Coldfusion

The news that I have been waiting for is almost here, but I will settle for second best. And that is the BlueDragon/J2EE version will be released under the GPL2.0 license.

This is very good news, and for many reasons.

Why do this? The market has been shifting a lot lately, and if you are not working in an enterprise market developing solutions for them, then you might not be aware of this market trend. The community has been pushing, and I have also been very vocal about Adobe going open source. There are more benefits to do so, the thing is that as New Atlanta has shown it is now time, time to move the language past the website and into more affordable markets and opportunities.

I can't discuss to much but the trend of open source has allowed our company to capitalize on a new direction of applications, and shift our business model to the direction that Enterprises are going. We have a suite of products in the works that have utilized our experience and mold some open source products into one main killer competitive application.

We couldn't do this with ColdFusion, but with Java there is enough open source applications that have allowed this to happen. And with no extra cost to us, but fitting these applications together we have in a short time capitalized on a market that Enterprise's have never seen before.

So how does that effect ColdFusion, well with no extra cost we can use the Engine and be able to tie more technology together, in a beneficial way. Do we care about cfreports? Do we care about verity? Do we care about the new Ajax UI in ColdFusion 8? The answer in short is no we don't, we already use extJS and ColdFusion can't match the current release, we also use a reporting engine.

So do we need to pay for licenses we aren't going to use?

That is the beauty about the press release of New Atlanta, source code to an open source CFML engine. That would allow us to integrate some ColdFusion applications into a more growing trend that we work with.

And yes I have pushed this idea to Adobe, and even Adobe have stated that they are looking at this option. Just I guess that New Atlanta now have the jump on Adobe.

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