CF in the News
While reviewing the news coverage of the ColdFusion MX 7 release, I was happy to see the amount of venues that discussed it, but rather disappointed at the quality. Most of them were simply the same article or two rehashed again and again and again. Nothing new -- just shared content on multiple sites.
There was the CNET/ZDNET article, which was really a brief summary of features in about two paragraphs. The Newsfactor Network was at least a meatier article, with a philosophical viewpoint, looking at where the industry is going and how ColdFusion fits in. Macromedia's press release (echoed in ColdFusion Developer's Journal and Businesswire) also had lots of quotes from ColdFusion customers, including one by Rob Brooks-Bilson, a major ColdFusion name. eWeek's article was basically a listing of features and pricing.
The majority of the coverage I've seen focused more on ColdFusion's new mobility features than on other aspects, such as forms, printing and reporting. While the latter features were mentioned in many articles, the focus of the articles were on Macromedia's push for mobile technology in ColdFusion.
I do have to hand it to ColdFusion Developer's Journal and Simon Horwith. Not only did Sys-Con do a radio interview with Dave Gruber, Senior Product Manager for ColdFusion, where he announced the ColdFusion MX 7 release, but CFDJ ran a group of technical articles focused on CFMX 7 and written by Macromedia's ColdFusion team. All of this came out on the day of the release. Nice job!
Now that you've had the recap, you deserve the list of URLs to give you a better idea of what's come out since the release of CFMX 7 on Monday, February 7th.
Macromedia ColdFusion Goes Mobile (CNET, February 7, 2005)
Macromedia Goes Mobile with ColdFusion (Enterprise Linux IT, February 8, 2005 -- a Newsfactor site)
Macromedia Announces ColdFusion MX 7 (ColdFusion Developer's Journal, February 7, 2005)
Macromedia Adds Mobile Support to ColdFusion (eWeek, February 7, 2005)
Macromedia Dialing Mobile Devices
Here's something interesting! This article looks at the new gateways in ColdFusion as an opportunity for Macromedia to reach out to a potentially huge new market. They also cite a claim by Macromedia that the new use of ColdFusion tags for Flash to lay out Flash content will save developers 75% of their workload.
Macromedia Dialing Mobile Devices (Computer Business Review Online, February 7, 2005)
Macromedia ColdFusion Looks Beyond the Web
InternetNews.com brings ColdFusion into the context of the rest of Macromedia's product line, and discusses Macromedia's push beyond the PC.
Macromedia ColdFusion Looks Beyond the Web (InternetNews.com, February 7, 2005)
ColdFusion MX 7 Hits the Streets
Updated Macromedia Development Platform Focuses on Internet and Mobiles (Computer Weekly, February 8, 2005)
ColdFusion MX 7 Builds SMS Apps for Mobile Phones
Oops! Check out the unfortunate CSS error that puts a news section sidebar squarely in front of some of the article.
ColdFusion MX 7 Builds SMS Apps for Mobile Phones (IT News, February 8, 2005)
