Last week I wrote an article asking the CF community for a list of open source applications they wished existed. The resulting comments were much different than I thought they would be.
I expected a small laundry list of applications similar to what is found in the PHP world as well as suggestions to make various applications work well together. I did get a few so far but what I didn’t expect were the discussions about the problems with the fragmentation of CF frameworks, and the overwhelming PHP and .NET installed user bases and how CF is stuck between a rock and a hard place because of this. There is also the statement that the open source applications for CF are generally all “one man shows” and not a community of developers on a single project.
If you haven’t had a chance to jump in on the conversation, I’d love to hear your list of applications as well as your take on the various other conversations going on here.
Vince Collins
