CFObjective: Day 1 - Keynote

Jason Delorme: Adobe - Keynote Scorpio Highlights

Very freakin excited about ColdFusion 8 AJAX support.  Jason indicates that Scorpio "leverages best of breed AJAX libraries", ie, Yahoo UI.  You can also use Spry, but Yahoo UI will be the library for Scorpio.  Also very interested in AJAX data binding in Scorpio.  It took 20 lines of code to link a nice looking, fully functional AJAX datagrid in a normal CF page.  It was super fast.

Wow!  ColdFusion 8 is 4 to 5 times faster than CF 7!  CF 8 now has <cfthread> support.

The image processing is incredibly fast.  Faster than anything I've seen before.  The image support doesn't just hook into some backend DLL or anything, it doesn't launch any backgground processes or anything.  It's all native and extremely fast!  I love when you can ditch "support" software, and it looks like CF 8 will allow us to ditch a lot of things that we typically install and run to enhance ColdFusion.  We can get rid of Lyla captcha, ImageMagik, AJAX libraries.

The Enterprise license will cover server virtualization.  Therefore, it doesn't cost anything extra to run multiple "copies" of CF Enterprise on infinite virtual servers.

There is no release date.  Mid 2007 is all we get.