In a surprise announcement Adobe announced today that they will be placing Coldfusion on an Open Source road-map similar to that of Adobe Flex.

"This is in no way Adobe's response to BlueDragon placing their competing product on the path to open source," Ms. Schofield Coldfusions' Product Manager explained, "we just felt that a free open source Coldfusion would have a much greater market penetration than previously estimated."

I asked Ms. Schofield about the timing of the announcement and received this as answer. "April 1st seemed the most appropriate date to release such an important announcement, clearly only fools would believe such nonsense".

Happy April Fools!

Note: Kristen Schofield knew nothing about my little April fools joke, so don't contact her asking about her comments, the dialog is all my own!