"DJ" <dj****@yahoo.comwrote in message
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Hi,
I am doing a project in a software industry and will appreciate your
help in answering these quick questions.
-What current Adobe/Macromedia products do you use?
ColdFusion MX
ColdFusion Studio
HomeSite+
Fireworks
Flash 8
Acrobat 7
-Over the next 6-12 months, what other products are you thinking of
buying through Adobe/Macromedia?
ColdFusion 8 (if available)
-Are you thinking of using other vendors' products? Which ones & why?
Um... yeah. Why? Because I use other vendors products. Microsoft Windows
and Office, CorelDRAW!, Eclipse, Nero and dozens of others.
Perhaps the question might be made more specific?
-Any specific issues you find in Adobe/Macromedia products?
I'm still annoyed at the relegation of event gateways as an enterprise-only
in ColdFusion but other than that, not much.
My biggest issue is a sin of omission: specifically the dropping of
code-specific editors like CF Studio and HomeSite+ for the much more
expensive and heavy DreamWeaver.
-Are you using any open-source products in conjunction with
Adobe/Macromedia? Which ones and why?
Yes.
Eclipse 3.x with CFEclipse as a ColdFusion IDE.
Several open-source CF applications and components such as Galleon and
CFWiki (both by Ray Camden).
-How do you compare Flash and Dreamweaver with AJAX? Which one do you
like better?
Um... what?
I'm sorry, but the question makes no sense. Flash (a specific vendor
product) can be said to do most of what AJAX (a family of general
programming techniques) does (or vice versa) but at the same time Flash can
use AJAX or AJAX can use Flash in a complementary manner.
Dreamweaver is an IDE and really has nothing in common with either Flash
(unless you're talking specifically about the Flash IDE) or AJAX. You can
use DreamWeaver to write AJAX applications or, in fact, to write Flash
applications.
It just doesn't seem useful to compare them. The phrase "Apples and
oranges" comes to mind.
Jim Davis