I am a beta (alpha) tester for the next version of ColdFusion codenamed scorpio.

The software is in version Alpha 2 and so far it has some of the features requested, but not many. I hope Adobe will invest some more time into this release of CF and add many features requested by end-users.

Also making CF a bit faster would be nice as my clients are moving away from CF since it is plainly too slow when compared to PHP and .Net .Net is seen as fairly easy to implement without the speed drawbacks of CF

We will all see how it turns out next year - I have my fingers corossed for the speed issue... hope the next version will be significantly faster than the current one.