The ColdFusion open source community is alive and well

ColdFusion is often given a bad rap because it's not an open source language - neither is ASP and Java. However, there is a strong open source community among ColdFusion developers.

Brian Rinaldi maintains a list of ColdFusion open source projects on his blog.
Other open source ColdFusion projects are available from riaforge.org
Charlie Arehart maintains a comprehensive list of both open source and propietary ColdFusion resources at http://www.carehart.org/cf411

There are too many open source ColdFusion frameworks for me to list. Go to Charlie Arehart's resource page for a complete list of frameworks available.

The latest open source ColdFusion content management system to become available is Sava CMS , listed as one of the 26 best content management systems.
Finally, Adobe's CF8 server is not the only ColdFusion server out there.
There are free and open source alternatives:

• Blue Dragon: http://www.newatlanta.com/products/bluedragon/open_source/overview.cfm
• Smith Project: http://smithproject.org/
• Railo: http://www.railo-technologies.com/en/index.cfm
  (not really open source, Railo follows a model similar to MySQL)

Cfopen is a ColdFusion open source initiative aimed at promoting open source ColdFusion application servers. It's mission:

Spread information, enable developers, encourage growth all as it relates to open source ColdFusion applications, compatible with open source CFML processors

ColdFusion is alive and well. With Adobe planning it's next ColdFusion release in 2009, and more releases planned for 2010 and 2011, you can be assured that ColdFusion will not be going away any time soon. Follow what's happening in the ColdFusion world, both open source and otherwise, by going to coldfusionbloggers.org. There you will find 454 ColdFusion related blog feeds aggregated into one spot.