- JJ Allaire
In 1995 Joseph J. (JJ) Allaire co-founded
Allaire Corporation with his brotherJeremy Allaire , creating the web development toolColdFusion . InMarch 2001 , Allaire was sold toMacromedia where ColdFusion was integrated into the Macromedia MX product line. Macromedia was subsequently acquired byAdobe Systems , which continues to develop and market ColdFusion.After the sale of his company, Allaire became frustrated at the difficulty of keeping track of research he was doing using
Google . To address this problem, he co-foundedOnfolio in 2004 withAdam Berrey , former Allaire co-founder and VP of Marketing at Macromedia.On
March 8 ,2006 , Onfolio was acquired byMicrosoft where many of the features of the original product are being incorporated into theWindows Live Toolbar .On
August 13 , 2006, Microsoft released the public beta of a new desktop blogging client calledWindows Live Writer that was created by Allaire's team at Microsoft.JJ Allaire received his B.A. from
Macalester College (St. Paul, MN) in 1991.External links
* [http://www.onfolio.com/ Onfolio]
* [http://windowslivewriter.spaces.live.com Windows Live Writer]
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