As a private company, New Atlanta normally does not disclose sales information. But this is too good not to pass along: in the same quarter (Jan-Mar 2005) that ColdFusion sales were the best in four years, BlueDragon has achieved all-time record sales. This is great news for everyone in the CFML community as a clear demonstration that the CFML server market (BlueDragon and ColdFusion) is healthy and growing.

BlueDragon sales for the first quarter of 2005 increased more than three times over the immediately preceding quarter (the fourth quarter of 2004), and were more than five times greater than the first quarter of 2004. These sales were achieved almost entirely by the Java/J2EE editions of BlueDragon 6.1. With the introduction of BlueDragon 6.2 and BlueDragon.NET near the end of the first quarter, we expect BlueDragon sales to more than double again in the second quarter of 2005!

For those BlueDragon critics and others who tend to view things in win-lose terms, this is compelling evidence that in fact we're in a win-win situation for everyone: New Atlanta, Macromedia, and our respective customers. Rather than harming ColdFusion, the introduction of BlueDragon to the CFML server market in 2002 is contributing to the overall growth of that market, to everyone's benefit.

So while we at New Atlanta celebrate BlueDragon's success, we offer our congratulations to the ColdFusion team at Macromedia on their success, and look forward with everyone in the CFML community to even better days ahead.