Macromedia ColdFusion

Macromedia ColdFusion (now called Adobe ColdFusion) is a commercial rapid web-application development platform created by Joseph J. Allaire in 1995. (The programming language used with that platform is also commonly called ColdFusion, though is more accurately known as CFML.) ColdFusion was originally designed to make it easier to connect simple HTML pages to a database. By version 2 (1996), it became a full platform that included an integrated development environment (IDE) in addition to a full scripting language.

History
Cold Fusion was originally released by Allaire Corporation in 1995. After acquiring Allaire in 2001, Macromedia was acquired by Adobe Systems in December 2005.