Macromedia Announces Immediate Availability of ColdFusion MX 7.SAN FRANCISCO San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden -- New version extends the Internet to mobile devices and delivers groundbreaking rich forms support, reporting, and printing solutions Macromedia (Nasdaq:MACR MACR Macromedia (stock symbol) MACR Missing Air Crew Report MACR Major Accident Control Regulations (UK) MACR Monthly Arrest and Citation Register MACR Modified And Combinable REMIC ) today announced the immediate availability of Macromedia(R) ColdFusion(R) MX 7, previously code-named "Blackstone." ColdFusion is the fastest, easiest way to build and deploy powerful Internet applications. Developers are already embracing the latest version of the ColdFusion application server (see attached quote sheet) and solving development challenges with new printable web content, rich forms, more flexible deployment options, and integrated, structured business reporting. ColdFusion MX 7 also provides cost-effective and powerful innovations to interact with mobile phones using short message service (SMS (1) (Storage Management System) Software used to routinely back up and archive files. See HSM. (2) (Systems Management Server) Systems management software from Microsoft that runs on Windows NT Server. ) text messaging Sending short messages to a smartphone, pager, PDA or other handheld device. Text messaging implies sending short messages generally no more than a couple of hundred characters in length. . To purchase or learn more about ColdFusion MX 7, please visit http://www.macromedia.com/go/cfmx7/. "Macromedia once again makes hard development problems easy to solve with the groundbreaking capabilities available in ColdFusion MX 7," said David Mendels, general manager, Macromedia. "ColdFusion MX 7 provides organizations with the solution to rapidly create Internet applications that deliver clear return on investment and bring a more compelling experience to the end user." In addition to web-based applications, ColdFusion MX 7 allows developers to create a new class of Internet applications for the mobile world. These new capabilities provide an easy way to securely extend applications to mobile phone users through SMS text messaging. Applications can also be created for access through instant messaging clients. The latest deployment options enable companies to address a broad range of business needs for today's mobile workforce. ColdFusion MX 7 lets developers build more powerful Internet applications in less time than ever before. New rich forms technology empowers developers to easily create superior online forms without having to code all of the presentation-tier logic. Developers can also transform dynamic web content into well-formatted, printable documents in either Macromedia FlashPaper Macromedia FlashPaper 2 is a software application developed and distributed by Adobe. Its functional design mimics Adobe Acrobat Distiller; it behaves as a virtual printer driver. Documents printed to Macromedia FlashPaper are written to Flash. (TM) or PDF (Portable Document Format) The de facto standard for document publishing from Adobe. On the Web, there are countless brochures, data sheets, white papers and technical manuals in the PDF format. formats. New business reporting features in ColdFusion MX 7 allow developers to generate affordable, structured business reports in the context of web applications, and give users access to important business data in easy-to-understand formats. "The digital world as we know it is changing, and is creating new growth in the application deployment software market for Internet-based applications in the browser and beyond, out to the edge of the Net," said Dennis Byron Sir Charles Michael Dennis Byron was born in 1943 in Basseterre, Saint Kitts, the first of four children to Vincent and Pearl Byron. Having won the Leeward Islands Scholarship, Dennis, as he is usually called, went on to read law at the world-renowned Cambridge University, U. , vice president, business process automation and deployment software research, IDC. "The open architecture of software like ColdFusion is just what it takes to enable next generation B2B (Business to Business) Refers to one business communicating with or selling to another. See B2B e-commerce, B2C and B2G. B2B - business to business solutions." ColdFusion runs as either a standalone application server or on top of leading J2EE application A J2EE application or an enterprise application is any deployable unit of J2EE functionality. This can be a single J2EE module or a group of modules packaged into an EAR file along with a J2EE application deployment descriptor. servers, including Macromedia JRun JRun is a J2EE application server, originally developed in 1997 as a Java Servlet engine by Live Software and subsequently purchased by Allaire, who brought out the first J2EE compliant version. (TM), IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) WebSphere, and BEA WebLogic A software suite from BEA Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA (www.beasys.com) that is used to deploy Web and SOA applications. The core product is BEA WebLogic Server, a J2EE application server. , bringing the product's legacy of productivity to the scalable, standards-based Java platform Running Java programs under the Java Virtual Machine (JVM). Java "platform" refers to the running of Java programs versus Java itself, which is a programming language. Java programs are machine independent and run intact on any hardware platform that has a Java interpreter (JVM). . ColdFusion MX 7 provides a new Enterprise Manager that enables administrators to quickly and easily create multiple application instances and adds new levels of high availability Also called "RAS" (reliability, availability, serviceability) or "fault resilient," it refers to a multiprocessing system that can quickly recover from a failure. There may be a minute or two of downtime while one system switches over to another, but processing will continue. and performance. The open architecture of ColdFusion MX 7 continues to make it easy to deploy applications on Windows, UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). , and Linux platforms. "ColdFusion MX 7 promises to be the most developer-friendly version of ColdFusion yet," said Joel Cox, IT project manager, The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company. "Much of the tedium of interface development is alleviated, allowing developers to spend their time working on the underlying business logic." PRICING AND AVAILABILITY ColdFusion MX 7 is immediately available in English for purchase in two editions. The Standard Edition includes two CPUs for $1,299. The Enterprise Edition includes two CPUs for $5,999. Volume discounts and government and education licensing are also available. A localized version for Japanese is expected to ship later this year. ABOUT MACROMEDIA Experience matters. Macromedia is motivated by the belief that great experiences build great businesses. Our software empowers millions of business users, developers, and designers to create and deliver effective, compelling, and memorable experiences -- on the Internet, on fixed media, on wireless, and on digital devices. DEVELOPERS PRAISE NEW FEATURES IN MACROMEDIA COLDFUSION MX 7 American Academy of Neurology The American Academy of Neurology (AAN) is a professional society for neurologists and neuroscientists. As a medical specialty society it was established in 1949 by A.B. Baker of the University of Minnesota to advance the art and science of neurology, and thereby promote the best "We intend on using ColdFusion MX 7 to provide critical, PDF-based reports in our meeting planning application, which helps us prepare all aspects of our members' annual meeting. ColdFusion MX 7 reporting is an impressive addition that allows us to quickly develop and deliver complex reports through the web to our business users. In addition, we will be using the new rich forms feature to provide a better interface to this application for our staff members as well as our annual meeting presenters. ColdFusion MX 7 is spot-on in terms of the features we need." - Kurt Wiersma, web applications developer, American Academy of Neurology ACD (Automatic Call Distributor) A computerized phone system that responds to the caller with a voice menu and connects the call to the appropriate agent. It can also distribute calls equally to agents. Direct "Hand in hand with some of the largest PBS PBS in full Public Broadcasting Service Private, nonprofit U.S. corporation of public television stations. PBS provides its member stations, which are supported by public funds and private contributions rather than by commercials, with educational, cultural, stations across the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. , ACD Direct in partnership with CallsWithoutWalls developed an advanced donation management system that takes in over $10 million a year, through hundreds of thousands of phone calls. Our entire agent base is the 'work-at-home' model, and with ColdFusion, we were able to provide a lightning-fast, cross-browser, easy-to-use interface to our agents. After upgrading to ColdFusion MX 7, I was thrilled with its ability to be used right out of the box. All of my current applications ran perfectly, and within a few minutes I was already transforming content into well-formatted documents and experiencing PDF and FlashPaper nirvana. ColdFusion MX 7 continues to set the standard by offering advanced technologies that far exceed our expectations." - Patrick R. Buchanan, chief technology officer, ACD Direct America First Credit Union America First Federal Credit Union, a federally chartered credit union headquartered in Ogden, Utah, is the 13th largest credit union in assets in the U.S. As of January, 2007, America First has 72 branch locations, 418,515 members, and has USD3.68 billion in assets. "ColdFusion MX 7 is the culmination of nearly everything that I have wanted out of this software. We will definitely upgrade our applications that currently run on ColdFusion MX 6.1 to take advantage of Flash forms and rich printable documents with FlashPaper and PDF. With ColdFusion MX 7, we can do more work in less time and give our users a much better experience than they could get anywhere else." - Nathan Petersen, web architect, America First Credit Union Amkor Technology Amkor Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMKR) is a high-tech semiconductor product manufacturer that includes Intel and IBM among its primary customers. Previously headquartered in West Chester, Pennsylvania, United States, Amkor recently announced that it will move to Chandler, "Currently our external website, intranet, and customer extranet all run on ColdFusion MX 6.1. We already plan to give our site search engine a major overhaul with ColdFusion MX 7. This new version represents a significant leap forward in the application development platform space. ColdFusion MX 7 software makes it easier than ever for developers to focus on creating exciting and innovative applications." - Rob Brooks-Bilson, senior manager, Amkor Technology City of Davis, California Davis is a city in Yolo County, California, United States. As of the local census, the city had a total population of 64,821 (60,308 in 2000). Davis is well known in the state of California as being a socially and environmentally conscious university, bike, and railroad town, home "PDF output is the first ColdFusion MX 7 feature that will be rolled out in our applications, so we can deliver press releases, municipal code, police activity logs, and city council and commission agendas to our citizens using the new document generation feature. The ability to dynamically create PDF documents of our web content will really get our users excited." - Seth Duffey, webmaster, City of Davis, California County of San Diego, Department of Child Support Services support services Psychology Non-health care-related ancillary services–eg, transportation, financial aid, support groups, homemaker services, respite services, and other services "ColdFusion MX 7 adds real end-user value because of the ways it enables us to capture and present information. We will employ ColdFusion MX 7 to drastically improve our printing by using the new document-printing feature, and begin the task of updating our application to use rich forms. Implementing the software on a J2EE application server has never been easier, allowing us to derive all the benefits of J2EE (Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition) A platform from Sun for building distributed enterprise applications. J2EE services are performed in the middle tier between the user's machine and the enterprise's databases and legacy information systems. with the scripting ease of ColdFusion." - Darius J. Fattahipour, senior IT engineer, County of San Diego, Department of Child Support Services Federal Supply Service, U.S. General Services Administration The General Services Administration (GSA) was established by section 101 of the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 (40 U.S.C.A. § 751). The GSA sets policy for and manages government property and records. (GSA (1) (Global mobile Suppliers Association, Sawbridgeworth, U.K., www.gsacom.com) A membership organization of suppliers of GSM products and services. Its goal is to promote GSM as the worldwide mobile communications standard. See GSM Association and GSM. ) "The Federal Supply Service, an agency of U.S. GSA, provides services to over one million federal workers. We rely on ColdFusion to develop many of our internal applications to support these services. We plan on taking advantage of the ColdFusion MX 7 J2EE deployment feature, which will allow us to easily package and deploy our web applications to our field offices. We also anticipate developing a system to dynamically convert items such as news or press releases into PDF and FlashPaper documents. With its ease of use, a bounty of features not found in any other application server, and a powerful tag-based language, ColdFusion MX 7 can tame even the most complex web applications." - Ryan R. Williams, ColdFusion developer, Federal Supply Service, U.S. GSA Georgetown University "At Georgetown University, our first application to be developed and run on ColdFusion MX 7 is a website management tool. Before, our students, faculty, and staff had to wait a day or two for simple tasks to get done on their sites. The new application, built with the rich feature set of ColdFusion MX 7, will put the site owner in control and enable developers to be more productive. The continued improvement and maturity of Macromedia products, such as ColdFusion MX 7, provides for a robust rapid application development environment, which enables us to support innovations in teaching and services at Georgetown." - Amit Yathirajadasan, senior IS specialist, Georgetown University InvestEdge "ColdFusion MX 7 is an incredible release. We already plan on moving our enterprise-level, wealth-management, and brokerage platforms to ColdFusion MX 7. By using XForms, we'll be able to create skins that will let us use the controls in our application with just a single line of code. ColdFusion has always been an enterprise-level platform, but these new features may make it 'the' enterprise platform." - RC Collins, chief technology officer, InvestEdge Peace Corps "ColdFusion MX 7 represents the most robust release ever, and enables developers to create feature-packed applications with shorter development schedules and less code than what is possible with other programming languages. Strengthened by new features including the improvement of the user experience with rich forms and printable web content, and the expansion beyond web-related applications into areas like SMS messaging, ColdFusion MX 7 is an amazing product." - Steve Ray, IT specialist, Peace Corps The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania The Wharton School is the business school of University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was established in 1881 through a donation of Joseph Wharton, making it the world’s oldest business school. "ColdFusion MX 7 allows the Wharton School to develop large scale, Java-based enterprise applications easily, and we already plan on running and developing our Knowledge@Wharton, an online magazine of faculty research and commentary with more than 400,000 subscribers worldwide, and SPIKE, our award-winning student intranet, with this latest version of ColdFusion. With the SMS gateway, we now have the ability to easily adapt our existing infrastructure and expand into an increasingly pervasive mobile environment. ColdFusion MX 7 will not only help us to create better experiences for our users with dynamic generation of electronic documents and printable web content, but the new additions to the language and environment will make it easier to develop then ever before." - Kendall Whitehouse, senior director of advanced technology development, The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania Copyright 2005 Macromedia, Inc. All rights reserved. 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