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ColdFusion Web Applications and Solutions

So you might be asking yourself at this stage, what is ColdFusion and how can it help me or what can I do with it? Well hopefully we will answer some of those questions for you below.


The brief history of ColdFusion

Fusion Team have been working with ColdFusion since version 4 when the core foundation of the ColdFusion Server was written in C++. The product was owned by Allaire Inc. Macromedia Inc. obviously saw great potential in the relatively easy to use server side, tag based programming language, so aquired Allaire Inc. back in 2001 in a deal of $360 million (USD).

Macromedia Inc. transformed the product with the release of ColdFusion MX 6 and ColdFusion MX 6.1, by running the software on top of the JRE (Java Runtime Environment) enabling ColdFusion to utilise underlying Java classes with ease.

This spurred ColdFusion developers to build websites and web applications in a completely new manner adopting object orientated design techniques and turning ColdFusion in to a serious contender to run business systems.

In April 2005 Macromedia Inc. were acquired by Adobe Systems Inc. for a whopping $3.4 billion (USD). This has given ColdFusion a solid future and has given the product a serious boost in the popularity ranks throughout the development world globally. Adobe have now released ColdFusion 8 which has a host of new features and ehancements. For complete information please visit Adobe Systems Inc. (ColdFusion 8)

Where can I use ColdFusion in my business?

Here at Fusion Team we have utilised ColdFusion to provide CFML solutions to businesses. These solutions include ..

  • Web Site Design
  • eCommerce Web Sites - Shopping Carts, Checkout, Payment and Delivery Solutions
  • Online Web Applications - Online Business Systems
  • Intranet Web Applications - Internal Web based business systems
  • Business Web Services - Allowing businesses to share and manipulate data

What does it cost me?

As we all know, nothing in this world is FREE. That is until a company called New Atlanta developed a CFML runtime called BlueDragon server. This edition of their server is FREE for production and development. They also offer business tier server versions for .NET and Java servers. Take a look at New Atlanta here. Pricing is available on their website.

The other alternative is to buy ColdFusion MX 7 from Adobe Systems Inc.. Pricing is available from their website.