Allaire Corporation was a computer software

Computer software

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 company founded by Jeremy

Jeremy Allaire

In 1995 Jeremy D. Allaire co-founded Allaire Corporation with his brother JJ Allaire, creating the web development tool ColdFusion. When Macromedia acquired Allaire in March 2001, Mr. Allaire became Chief Technology Officer. At Macromedia, Allaire helped create the Macromedia MX platform...

 and JJ Allaire

JJ Allaire

In 1995 Joseph J. Allaire co-founded Allaire Corporation with his brother Jeremy Allaire, creating the web development tool ColdFusion. In March 2001, Allaire was sold to Macromedia where ColdFusion was integrated into the Macromedia MX product line...

 in Minnesota

Minnesota

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, later headquartered in Cambridge

Cambridge, Massachusetts

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, then Newton, Massachusetts

Newton, Massachusetts

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. It commenced operations in May 1995, had its initial public offering

Initial public offering

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 on NASDAQ

NASDAQ

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 (trading ticker ALLR) in January 1999, and was acquired by rival Macromedia

Macromedia

Macromedia was an American graphics and web development software company headquartered in San Francisco, California that produced such products as Flash and Dreamweaver. Its rival, Adobe Systems, acquired Macromedia on December 3, 2005 and controls the line of Macromedia...

 in early 2001.

Allaire released the first version of the ColdFusion

ColdFusion

In computing, ColdFusion is the name of a commercial rapid application development platform invented by Jeremy and JJ Allaire in 1995. ColdFusion was originally designed to make it easier to connect simple HTML pages to a database, by version 2 it had...

 server in 1995, the first database-driven

Relational database

A relational database is a database that conforms to relational model theory. The software used in a relational database is called a relational database management system . Colloquial use of the term "relational database" may refer to the RDBMS software, or the relational database itself...

 web-content

World Wide Web

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 server. In its early history, the name of the language for ColdFusion, then known as Database Markup Language (DBML), was changed to ColdFusion Markup Language

ColdFusion Markup Language

ColdFusion Markup Language, more commonly known as CFML, is a scripting language for web development that runs on the JVM, the .NET framework, and Google App Engine...

 (CFML). The company also produced two web design IDE

Integrated development environment

An integrated development environment is a software application that provides comprehensive facilities to computer programmers for software development...

s: HomeSite, purchased from Bradbury Software, and ColdFusion Studio, based on HomeSite with enhancements tailored to development of ColdFusion applications.

In 2000, Allaire acquired Live Software,, a company founded by Paul Colton in 1997 and best known for the creation of the first commercial Java Servlet

Java Servlet

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 and JSP

JavaServer Pages

JavaServer Pages is a Java technology that helps software developers serve dynamically generated web pages based on HTML, XML, or other document types...

 server, JRun.

Allaire also produced an early web Content Management System

Content management system

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 (CMS) called Spectra.

JRun was purchased by Macromedia

Macromedia

Macromedia was an American graphics and web development software company headquartered in San Francisco, California that produced such products as Flash and Dreamweaver. Its rival, Adobe Systems, acquired Macromedia on December 3, 2005 and controls the line of Macromedia...

, which in 2001 also purchased Allaire. In 2005, Macromedia was purchased by Adobe Systems

Adobe Systems

Adobe Systems Incorporated is an American computer software company founded in 1982 and headquartered in San Jose, California, United States...

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