• Cold Fusion was started by Allaire in 1995 as a DBML (Database markup language). Because of its high performance when accessing any database and easiness to develop an application, ColdFusion software makes internet application development and deployment faster and easier than any other solution available today. More than 300,000 developers at over 10,000 companies worldwide rely on ColdFusion to quickly build and deploy powerful Internet applications, making ColdFusion one of the most widely adopted web technologies in the industry. Hence in today’s IT driven economy Cold fusion training is of great importance.
• As the world's first commercially available web application server when it was shipped in 1995, Macromedia® ColdFusion dramatically simplified the process of dynamically publishing database content on web pages. In subsequent releases, the functionality of Cold Fusion expanded beyond database connectivity to include a broad collection of out-of-the-box services for building all kinds of Internet applications.
• Now in the Adobe product family, ColdFusion continues to get better with every release. Coldfusion has evolved from version after version (3.5 to 4.0 to 4.5 to 5.0). The next major release was 6.0. This was completely based on Java based technology. The current latest version of Coldfusion is CF 8.0
• ColdFusion is most often used for data-driven web sites or intranets, but can also be used to generate remote services such as SOAP web services or Flash Remoting. ColdFusion can also handle asynchronous events such as SMS and instant messaging via its gateway interface, available in ColdFusion MX 7 Enterprise Edition.
• ColdFusion provides a number of value-added services out of the box. Among them:

o Conversion from HTML to PDF and FlashPaper
o Client-side code generation, especially for form widgets and validation
o Platform-independent database querying via ODBC or JDBC
o Data retrieval from common enterprise systems such as Active Directory, LDAP, POP, HTTP, FTP,
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o Client and server cache management
o Session, client, and application management
o File indexing and searching service based on Verity K2
o XML parsing, querying, and validation
o Server clustering
o GUI administration
o Task scheduling