coldfusion news from cfoanz keynote (Twister, Thunder, more)

It has been awhile since I have seen Terrence Ryan from Adobe speak at a conference and he is as engaging as I remember. He lead off the cf.Objective (ANZ) conference with lots of news. @rebel tweeted "It's good to see just how well @tpryan understands his Australian audience #cfoanz". I think that is true for probably any audience Terry speaks to. So here are pictures of slides and some interesting tidbits.

link to album These are not exact but my notes.

• ColdFusion is a profitable product for Adobe so we will continue to enhance & sell it
• Twister is the code name for the next ColdFusion Builder upgrade
  • support for Zeus
    • server manager
    • language dictionaries
  • performance enhancements
• Quotes from Tridib Roy Chowdhury. He is the Director of Products at Adobe Systems managing products like ColdFusion, Captivate and the Adobe eLearning Suite.
  • "Business around pricing, licensing, and access (through cloud Process innovations) will eliminate the roadblocks for new users trying out the platform - to access the latest technology."
  • "Adobe continues to invest in CF as is illustrated by 4 product releases planned in the next 24 months"

Does the pricing quote suggest, a lower amount of initial capital for companies to start using ColdFusion with a subscription model or the likes? This would mean less up front investment for companies if they prefer that over the current pricing structure. With a little detective work, the upcoming 4 releases may breakdown to these:

• Zeus (Server)
• Twister (IDE)
• ???????? (Server)
• Thunder??? (IDE)

Also a nice announcement was the enhancements to CFSchedule:

• Event Handling
  • Before
  • After
  • OnError ( your code isn't correct )
  • OnMisfire ( schedule or server problem )
• Groups - Manage tasks together
• Application Specific tasks
• Chaining
• Prioritize
• Exclude dates
• Handle errors
• Pause and resume