February 6 2009 6:15 PM by Adam
filed under ColdFusion | Story Of My Life

It's official. I'm the new Product Manager for ColdFusion and Bolt. After a considerable amount of internal debate, I decided to step up and take the lead of the product I love so much. I don't mean to sound sappy, but I'm incredibly humbled that the rest of the ColdFusion team trusts me enough to fulfill this role. I'm honored to follow in the footsteps of people I admire.

I'm positive that there is no better job in Adobe than working with Ben and the rest of the Evangelist team. I got to travel the world like a rock star and share the awesomeness of ColdFusion with everyone I met. However, I've never been one to turn down a challenge.

I believe that ColdFusion and CFML are at a critical crossroad. After 13 years, critics outside of the ColdFusion community expect us to go quietly into the night; to abandon CFML and move to unproven platforms… all for the sake of popularity. These critics throw stones out of fear and ignorance. We cannot let them determine our future. They will continue to write that ColdFusion has peaked, and someday they will be right.

That being said, I do not plan to focus on our competition at all. If we spend our time watching what everyone else is doing, we're doomed to compete with them. If we want to start another revolution, we need to look forward, with our own ideas and our own innovation. Revolutions are born from minorities who challenge the status quo. The ColdFusion community is ripe and I believe it is our job at Adobe to light the fuse and feed the fire.

I believe that ColdFusion is the best platform for building web applications. I believe the sums of its strengths are far greater than that of its weaknesses. I believe that all of ColdFusion's problems are solvable. I believe that regardless of size or popularity, the ColdFusion community contains the best damn programmers on the Internet and I plan to do everything in my power not to let them down.