Andrew's ramblings

Adobe has egg on their face

Tags: General, Coldfusion

I guess by now it is very common knowledge that Adobe must be feeling embarrassed by the latest shipment of ColdFusion 9 DVD's.

Please do not take this post the wrong way, there was a lot of great stuff put into this version. And I personally just don't see why they couldn't have waited to get every thing right first before releasing it.

Microsoft got a lot of flack when they released Windows Vista, and Adobe may just well get the same flak because of the amount of problems that that will need to be fixed in a hurry, and even though this latest version of ColdFusion is still something to look forward to. I would be certainly waiting for ColdFusion 9.2 before you go into production with this, and no that is not a typo the first release will be hurried out to get some applications up and running. But it will be the next release before the bigger boys will even think or should even think about updating.

Adobe have during the beta cycle remained to be 100% backward compatible, and yet they release a product that so far a lot of applications I have run on ColdFusion 9 fail to work, because it is not 100% backward compatible.

When I first heard that Adobe had released ColdFusion 9 I was a little overjoyed, but on the same token I also knew that it wasn't ready. I will not name the people who gave me flak over my twitter posts, but I think this is just another example were a corporation has endured to rush a product out the door because of marketing. Does Microsoft ring any bells here!!

So if you do plan on upgrading to ColdFusion please make sure that you run your application through its paces in a test environment well an truly before you even think of upgrading the production server.

And the people who are going to suffer the most are shared hosting companies who are going to be in demand from their customers who will want to migrate over to ColdFusion 9, and if these hosting companies do then be vary weary of them with your application. The serious hosting providers know full well that until the first service pack they refuse to migrate, which is where the majority of Adobes money comes from, so logic would mean that if the majority of your bread and butter comes from these big boys. Would it not be best to wait a bit more and make sure you got it right.

And just out of curiosity how the hell do you ship the latest product with an an older released version?