August 7, 2009 – (HOSTSEARCH.COM) –
CrystalTech Web Hosting - the web hosting division of Newtek Technology Services, a Newtek Business Services, Inc. company (NASDAQ: NEWT) has announced it will host the beta version of Adobe® ColdFusion® 9. CrystalTech hosts more than 100,000 domain names and serves developers and customers in more than 100 countries around the world.
“We’ve been a strong and vocal supporter of the ColdFusion environment for more than a decade,” said CrystalTech President Bob Cichon. “Our customer communities around the world will be excited to download the beta of ColdFusion 9 as it can help them increase developer productivity, integrate with complex enterprise environments and deliver rich and interactive experiences for their users.”
CrystalTech’s ColdFusion developer community will not only have the opportunity to be among the first to experience ColdFusion 9 as a hosted platform, but will be able to do so in a full-featured, live production environment, providing them a significant voice in finessing the system as it prepares for a full launch.
“Partnering with web hosting companies like CrystalTech and Newtek Technology Services is important to the success of ColdFusion developer adoption,” said Adam Lehman, product manager at Adobe. “With ColdFusion 9, Adobe is focused on building an easier path for developers and IT professionals to create rich user interfaces for their enterprise applications and to integrate across their existing technologies.”
ColdFusion 9 delivers some exciting and significant new capabilities. Highlights include improved application performance with more granular control over code, templates and applications. In addition, Adobe is rolling out a powerful new integrated development environment, Adobe® ColdFusion® Builder™. Deeply integrated with ColdFusion 9, ColdFusion Builder offers a robust tool for developers hoping for more ease and efficiency in developing and managing applications.
CrystalTech is offering the full-featured beta version free during the beta phase, and is featuring the platform on Windows Server 2008 and IIS7.
