Are New Atlanta genuine about CFML?

I was just browsing around some of the feeds that I follow catching up after three days at Scotch, when I came across a post from Vince Bonfanti of New Atlanta – the people behind Bluedragon.

Nothing much you might think, being a post about BlueDragon 7.1 at Microsoft’s TechEd conference except for one thing. At the end of the post, Vince mentions New Atlanta’s new CFML migration services for those that want to migrate from CFML to Java or .NET (which are implied to be more modern web application platforms)

So, what does this say about New Atlanta? For me it suggests that they have no real interest in boosting CFML or making the world a better place for CFML developers, but are more interested in selling licenses and consulting to those who want to take their applications elsewhere.

For me, the CFML market now has two vendors I would do business with: Adobe and Railo. Anyone see this differently?

EDIT: To make things clear:  I am completely behind the Open Bluedragon project ( as with any free and open project ), I just have some minor issues with New Atlanta themselves.  I have no idea what happened with the OpenBD Steering Committee mailing list posts.

Posted by Neil Middleton on 07 Jun 2008