called Allaire and had it's first release in July 1995. In 1998 Cold Fusion gets a very minor name change, the space between Cold and Fusion gets removed becoming Coldfusion. In 2001 Macromedia bought Allaire and took over development of the language. The following year Coldfusion server becomes Java-Based forever changing the way people view the language. In February 2005 Coldfusion MX 7 is launched with a whole new set of features and enterprise-level capabilities.

Webmonkey.com Why should you be interested in ColdFusion? As Charles tells all us webmasters, "if business likes it, you love it." And businesses love ColdFusion, because this database-to-Web gateway provides an effective and simple way to make a dynamic Web.

In this three-day tutorial, Charles starts by identifying those who could benefit from using ColdFusion. He then moves on to tackle some of the backend work: identifying a data source on the server and making the modifications needed to get the database ColdFusion-ready.

Tomkitta.com The aim of this tutorial is to explain to someone that never worked with ColdFusion as to what it is and how to get started quickly. There is no assumed prior knowledge of ColdFusion. However, it is assumed that you have already installed a CF (CF stands for ColdFusion) server. In the database section I also assumed that you installed a database server - for my examples I will use a SQL server and its default databases (pubs and Northwind). I assume that you know, or someone will help you with installing datasource names for these two databases.

Sitepoint.com The time will eventually come when you need to work with a database for a website. Using a database greatly enhances your ability to add and remove content, and all in all it requires less work to set up.