Rumors of JRun's Demise Questionable

by Judith Dinowitz

This rumor has surfaced at different times, most recently in an article on NewsForge by Chris Preimesberger and Matt Liotta. Macromedia responded to this in Matt's blog entry on August 5th as well as in his earlier blog entry on June 4th. Matt's argument is that Macromedia is planning to stop developing JRun -- he says that they have fired a good portion of their JRun development team and are outsourcing a lot of maintenance work to programmers in India (this from an unnamed source of Matt's.)

What would argue against the supposed demise of JRun is the following news items: On July 21st, a news release went out about Macromedia renewing their J2EE license for JRun. And on August 5th, Macromedia announced the release of ColdFusion MX 6.1, running on a Java Virtual Machine of 1.4.2. JRun is bundled with ColdFusion Enterprise edition. As the backbone of ColdFusion, JRun is essential to Macromedia's business strategy, and I can't see any reason Macromedia would kill it off.

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