The link at the end of my Soapbox rant will take you to a short blog entry by Stephen Wunker, a writer for Forbes.com who’s apparent area of expertise is “New Markets”.
In this essay he proclaims that the second (of four) reason that MySpace.com is faltering is because it was written in ColdFusion which (as he puts it) is not an open source tool.
OMG (to put it in today’s vernacular).
According to Richard Buckingham, VP of Technical Operations at MySpace from 2005 to 2010 the site was launched in PHP but switched to ColdFusion for the sole purpose of allowing a more open platform. The API allows individuals to write in .NET, C#, ColdFusion, Ruby, and yes, even PHP.
Now there is no way to contact Mr. Wunker through his Forbes blog entry so I can attempt to set the record straight with him. As far as I can tell from his bio his major claim to fame is he was a “colleague” of some Harvard Business School professor.
Not sure what this guy’s agenda is, he has truly done Forbes a disservice by publishing an outright lie and the Internet programming community by misleading people into believing the ColdFusion is neither open source or flexible.
Who is this guy?
4 Morals from MySpace’s Fall - Stephen Wunker - New Markets - Forbes
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