ColdFusion is a commercial rapid application development platform invented by Jeremy and JJ Allaire in 1995. Originally designed to make it easier to connect simple HTML pages to a database, by version 2 it had become a full platform that included an IDE in addition to a full scripting language. Current versions of ColdFusion, sold by Adobe Systems, include advanced features for enterprise integration and development of rich Internet applications (RIA).

 

	Allaire Cold Fusion version 1.0
	1,995

	Allaire Cold Fusion version 1.5
	1,996

	Allaire Cold Fusion version 2.0
	1,996

	Allaire Cold Fusion version 3.0
	1,997

	Allaire Cold Fusion version 3.1
	1,998

	Allaire ColdFusion version 4.0 (space eliminated between Cold and Fusion to make it ColdFusion)
	1,998

	Allaire ColdFusion version 4.5
	1,999

	Macromedia ColdFusion version 5.0
	2,001

	Macromedia ColdFusion MX version 6.0 (build 6,0,0,48097), Updater 1 (build 6,0,0,52311), Updater 2 (build 6,0,0,55693), Updater 3 (build 6,0,0,58500)
	2,002

	Macromedia ColdFusion MX version 6.1 (build 6,1,0,63958), hot fix (6,1,0,xxxxx), Updater 1 (build 6,1,0,83762)
	2,003

	Macromedia ColdFusion MX 7 (build 7,0,0,91690), 7.0.1 (build 7,0,1,116466), 7.0.2 (build 7,0,2,142559)
	2,005

	Adobe ColdFusion 8 (build 8,0,0,176276)
	2,007

	Adobe ColdFusion 8.0.1 (build 8,0,1,195765)
	2,009

	Adobe ColdFusion 9 (build 9,0,0,251028)
	2,009

	Adobe ColdFusion 9.0.1 (build 9,0,1,274733)
	2,010

 

Jeremy Allaire

In 1995 Jeremy D. Allaire co-founded Allaire Corporation with his brother JJ Allaire, creating the web development tool ColdFusion. When Macromedia acquired Allaire in March 2001, Jeremy became Chief Technology Officer. At Macromedia, Jeremy helped create the Macromedia MX (Flash) platform. He left Macromedia in February 2003 to join venture capital firm General Catalyst.

Jeremy Allaire founded Brightcove in early 2004, to create a video distribution platform for the Internet. He now holds the position of CEO.

 

Joseph J. Allaire

With over eight years of software development experience, J.J. Allaire is regarded as an Internet visionary and one of the most successful young Internet entrepeneurs. Currently, he is Chief Technical Officer and is responsible for overall Allaire vision and direction.

J.J. founded Allaire on the belief that the Web is the next generation application platform. This new platform demands a new set of widely accessible, flexible and Web-centric development tools and a new kind of Internet software firm.

 

Allaire team

J J Allaire	Jeremy Allaire	Carolyn and Ben	Adam Berrey	Victor Delgado
Steve Drucker	Ben Forta	Ben Frueh	Seth Horan	Sue Hove
Tom Jordahl	Jack Lull	Patrik Mozila	Steve Penella	John Saitta
Brian Shin	Simeon Simeonoy	Nate Zelnick