Rakshith Naresh talks about "Revealing the ColdFusion 2018 Roadmap details " in this episode of ColdFusion Alive podcast with host Michael Smith.
Show notes
- How has CF changed over the last few versions
- Docker container - official images will be available by end of Q3 2017
- + Redhat openshift platform
- What features are you focusing on CF 2018
- Performance
- New Performance Management Suite
- Runtime faster
- Distributed caching (on separate server in your cluster)
- ASync programming
- Security
- Automated lockdown
- CF has the least number of issues of any App dev platform
- No Zero Day issues over the last 4 years (other languages have had them!)
- Language
- OO better inheritance including interface inheritance
- Pre-alpha release will be announced on blogs.coldfusion.com
- PDF better conversion
- How do you decide what features to add?
- What is the long term commitment of Adobe to ColdFusion?
- How are ColdFusion sales going for Adobe?
- Sales are growing 12% per year
- The biggest revenue for CF sales was this year
- Hence Adobe continues to invest in CF
- 5 years of support plus 2 years extended support
- CF 2016 will have full support through 2021. Extended support through 2023
- CF 2018 will have full support through 2023. Extended support through 2025
- Security hotfixes are provided in full support period
- Why are you proud to use CF?
- He has been on the CF team for 11 years (during CF 8 build as engineer)
- CF is critical to 76% of our customers in their tech
- 70% of Fortune 100 companies use CF
- 50% of Fortune 500 companies use CF
- WWIT for you to make CF more alive this year?
- New features in CF 2018
- CF Summit support
- Large customer and analyst (Gartner and Forrester) conversations
- Changing the perception of CF as being a modern and alive technology
- What are you looking forward to at CF Summit?
- 500+ attendees - was sold out last year
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