Why ColdFusion 8 will not be out in July. Or in August. It's gonna be October

Submitted by Falken on

Over on his blog, Dale Fraser suggests two possible dates for the upcoming release of ColdFusion 8 - 1st July 2007 or the first week of August.

I'm still plumbing for 15th October '07 though.

Firstly that's when the biggest round of Adobe conferences ever are one - one in the US, one down in Spain and another in Japan.

Secondly, and I think most tellingly, the current beta of the Flex 3 SDK expires then:

This beta will expire on Wed Oct 31 00:00:00 GMT 2007.

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I think Adobe will hold back all their new toys (Flex and Flex Builder 3, ColdFusion 8) until the same release date. And they'll want to make a big splash in front of the crowds. And a good way to that is just to bring out new toy after new toy. Works for Apple :-)

Unfortunately someone else has already plumbed those dates in the contest to guess the date :-(

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