I've posted my presentation slides from New Atlanta's keynote at CFUNITED-06. You can view the speaker notes after launching the PowerPoint slide show if you right-click and then select "Screen-->Speaker Notes" from the pop-up menu (I didn't read the speaker notes verbatim--in some cases what I actually said was shortened considerably due to time constraints--but they capture the gist of what I had to say). Here are the speaker notes from slide 11, which is entitled "Key Messages" and pretty much summarizes the theme of the keynote.

BlueDragon is a mature, proven product. Since we first introduced BlueDragon in 2002—over four years ago—it has been deployed by hundreds of companies and organizations; at all levels of government—by local, state, and federal agencies—by state and federal courts; by local school districts and major universities; by churches and other charitable organizations; by banks and other major financial institutions and insurance companies; by small- and medium-sized companies, and also by the largest Fortune 500 and Fortune 100 corporations.

BlueDragon offers unique benefits as an alternative platform for deploying your CFML applications. There are reasons why these companies and organizations are choosing BlueDragon. It’s is not simply a copy or clone of ColdFusion—BlueDragon does things that ColdFusion doesn’t do and offers benefits that ColdFusion doesn’t offer. I’m not going to tell you that BlueDragon is always a better choice than ColdFusion or that everyone who’s using ColdFusion should switch to BlueDragon. But for some people BlueDragon is better and you might be one of those people. Which leads me to my third point…

You, as a CFML developer, need to know more about BlueDragon. You need to know about the different product editions: the standalone Server, the J2EE edition, the BEA WebLogic edition, and BlueDragon.NET. You need to know what it can do and what it can’t do; how it’s the same and how it’s different from ColdFusion. You need to know these things so you can make an informed decision about whether BlueDragon is the right product for you… or whether it’s not. You may take a look at BlueDragon and decide not to use it—and that’s OK—if your decision is based on knowledge of BlueDragon’s strengths and weaknesses. But if you’re not using BlueDragon because you don’t know anything about it, because you’ve never downloaded it or tried it, or never read any of the documentation; or maybe because you read something on a blog or mailing list written by somebody who doesn’t really know much about BlueDragon or maybe has old information, then you might not be using the best product for deploying your CFML applications.