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It�s been over two years since the introduction of the highly successful ColdFusion 7, and much has changed in that time:
There�s a new name above the door, we�re now Adobe (for those who are counting, that brings the companies who have owned ColdFusion to three).
Adobe Flex Builder 2 was released, making Eclipse even more appealing for many developers.
Ajax (which previously had referred to a character in Homer�s Iliad, a tragedy by Sophocles, a Dutch football club, and a household cleaning product) has become the hot new way to build next-generation web front ends.
AIR (previously Apollo) has gone into public beta, allowing developers to build desktop applications using Flex/Flash and HTML/JavaScript.
During this time we�ve been hard at work building the next ColdFusion, and the above events (and more) helped shape what is now ColdFusion 8.
Earlier this year, I was fortunate enough to present ColdFusion 8 to thousands of developers as part of our pre-release user group tour. And while preparing the presentations and demos I was struck by just how much there is in ColdFusion 8 to talk about�this is no incremental update, this is leaps and bounds further than we�ve talked about ColdFusion before (and ColdFusion MX 7 already leapfrogged the competition). For the user group tour we cherry picked the features we wanted to demo, and changed the presentations and demonstrations weekly (both for our own sanity and to keep the content fresh). And here too, I am going to only highlight a subset of the features and technologies that make up ColdFusion 8.
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