Answer to the open letter to Railo and me

Ben - thanks. I guess this gets you climbing up my charts even higher :-)
I slept very badly the past few weeks given the fact that what we were going to announce might have a huge impact on the evolution of CFML for the community.

Ben pointed out that this was of course a business decision as well and he is absolutely right. We all have to put bread on the table somehow. Nevertheless this step mainly serves the community. We are of course expecting some revenue from raising a new market, but it would be foolish to do so without a strong partner (JBoss) and maybe somehow together with a competitor (Adobe). Let me state this clearly here:
There is not way to create an expert group or similar without the participation of Adobe. Anyone who does not see this is fooling themselves. Let's face it: Without Allaire/Macromedia/Adobe none of us would be in our current position. This was one of the reasons we decided to contact Adobe prior to announcing the move.
And I must also point out that Ben always treated us (especially me) with respect and he always helped whenever he could or whenever it was possible. So I really appreciate his words and am really thankful. Nevertheless I suppose there won't be a book called "Railo 3.1" by Ben Forta :-).
But once again, any Open Source expert group or CFML expert group needs to have at least someone from Adobe in it. And I must also say that I would like to see it as an independant expert group, not only having the JBoss or Adobe signs all over it. Then it might even be possible to gain acceptance from the majority of the CFML community.
There's a new wind blowing in the CFML market at the moment and we all should benefit from it. A lot of frustrated JSP users might just be waiting for CFML to show up...