Coldfusion can be Free

A while back there were a lot of comments being made on some blog posts about beginners shying away from ColdFusion because it wasn't free and how CF has become more focused on the corporate market. While I think that moving towards corporate is a natural progression of any language (except php which will almost always remain in the hands of common man/woman), I want to dispel that myth that there aren't non-Adobe alternatives that are 100% free. Below is a list of CF alternatives that can be run in enterprise environments without dropping a dime:

• Blue Dragon by New Atlanta
• Ralio
• Smith by youngculture AG - New

An important thing to keep in mind is that the above engines don't neccessarily have all of the features (includes tags, functions, ect...) that the official Adobe version contains, however some like BlueDragon contain additional features (like interfaces) that Adobe does not.

Update: 03/05/07
Here are two more CF Engines

• IgniteFusion
• Coral Web Builder by PCAOnline. (I don't beleive this a production quality environment, but it lets you run CF apps from a disk)

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