BlueDragon, BEA WebLogic® Edition was officially announced today providing the first serious challenge to Adobe’s stranglehold on the server market for CFML. As usual, the article is written in Presspeak (“service-oriented architectures”, “help meet evolving business needs”, “leverage, modernize and extend legacy applications”) that makes it sound impressive but is as nebulous as Paris Hilton’s acting career.

However, the entry of BEA into the CFML Server market as a competitor to Adobe ColdFusion MX, I believe, says that the ColdFusion market is more lucrative, pervasive, and stable than people might first think.

Now all we need is an OSI CFML parser that can be integrated into JBoss. One can only dream of the day when we can deploy legacy ColdFusion apps without shelling out a dime for the platform.