Adobe ColdFusion 9 and ColdFusion Builder Public Betas Now Available

Tight Integration with Adobe Flash Platform Increases Productivity for RIA
Developers
SAN JOSE, Calif.--(Business Wire)--
Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced the public betas of
Adobe ColdFusion 9 and ColdFusion Builder software. ColdFusion 9, a powerful
development technology for building dynamic Web sites and Internet applications,
increases developer productivity, integrates with complex enterprise
environments and delivers rich and interactive experiences for users. ColdFusion
Builder is a new Eclipse based integrated development environment (IDE) used for
rapidly developing ColdFusion applications.

ColdFusion developers can now utilize greater integration with the Adobe Flash
Platform, a complete system of integrated tools, frameworks, clients and servers
for the development of Web applications, content and video that runs
consistently across operating systems and devices. As a result, developers and
IT professionals have an easier path for creating rich user interfaces for their
enterprise applications and to integrate across their existing technologies.

"ColdFusion adoption has accelerated since we introduced support for Flex, AJAX
and PDF with ColdFusion 8," said David Wadhwani, general manager and vice
president of the Platform Business Unit at Adobe. "The increased integration
with everything from Adobe AIR applications to enterprise-based Adobe LiveCycle
ES software enables companies to meet critical business needs quickly, while
ColdFusion Builder provides developers with an enhanced workflow between
ColdFusion and the Flash Platform for RIA development."

Customers across multiple industries are participating in the ColdFusion 9 and
ColdFusion Builder public betas. "ColdFusion 9 has several new features of
interest to enterprise customers, particularly regarding Microsoft SharePoint
integration and the ability to read and write Microsoft Office documents as part
of a business process flow," said Joel Cox, IT product manager, Goodyear. "The
new innovative array of tools with tightened integration elevates ColdFusion to
a new level of functionality allowing for improved performance gains for
developers and business users alike."

ColdFusion 9 accelerates the development cycle by reducing complex and powerful
business logic into a few lines of code. ColdFusion 9 applications easily access
data from existing enterprise infrastructure including Microsoft SharePoint,
Microsoft Office files and portlet standards. Also, new ColdFusion 9 features
include an Adobe AIR application for managing multiple ColdFusion servers from
one location, helping to save performance time and reducing redundant tasks.
ColdFusion 9 also offers local and remote database synchronization with Adobe
AIR, improving user satisfaction by enabling them to use an application
regardless of Internet connectivity. Additionally, deep integration with
Hibernate`s object relational mapping (ORM) provides developers with database
independent applications. Combined, the new features can enable faster
development and deployment of Web applications.

ColdFusion Builder is a new development tool that provides a unified,
customizable and extensible development environment to code applications, manage
servers and deploy projects. It includes tools for debugging applications within
the IDE, remote support and custom code generation, a customized development
environment and support for applications built with ColdFusion 7 and 8. Using
ColdFusion Builder, developers can become more productive due to the automation
of redundant tasks and reuse of code. Also, because ColdFusion Builder and Adobe
Flash Builder are Eclipse based, there is deep feature integration and enhanced
workflow to generate client and server code. As a result developers can more
simply create rich interfaces and applications with ColdFusion server-side
logic.

The ColdFusion 9 public beta is available for download at
www.adobe.com/go/coldfusion_beta_download. The ColdFusion Builder public beta is
available for download at www.adobe.com/go/coldfusion_builder_beta_download.

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© 2009 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All rights reserved. Adobe, the Adobe logo,
Adobe AIR, AIR, ColdFusion, ColdFusion Builder, Flash, Flex and LiveCycle are
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Adobe Systems Incorporated
Marissa Lee, 415-832-5378
marlee@adobe.com
or
A&R Edelman
Paul Lesinski, 503-293-8949
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