If you haven’t listened to the Vince Bonfanti interview on ColdFusion Weekly yet - go do it.
To be honest I was expecting a bit more of a ‘cut-n-paste’ interview where Vince responded with canned responses. It was anything but. Vince gave a great overview of his history (he’s a developer GASP!), the history of BlueDragon, and why they decided it was time to go open-source. He answered a ton of questions and cleared up quite a few things I was wondering about.
It was funny because he mentioned using File Maker Pro and having it connect to the web. That was EXACTLY the reason I discovered ColdFusion. A Mac user at my company had a huge File Maker database that he wanted to ‘webify’. At the time there was no ODBC connection to File Maker and I went exploring options and found ColdFusion.
Listening to Vince, it’s clear that he gets open-source. I’m even more excited about the release of OpenBD now than I was before.
On a side note there is a new OpenBD mailing list.
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