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Macromedia® ColdFusion® MX Evaluator's Guide PLANNING YOUR EVALUATION The amount of time required to fully experience the power and ease of use of ColdFusion MX varies depending on your background and skillset, If you are new to ColdFusion, or dynamic application development, we suggest you read the early sections of this guide in order to gain a basic understanding of ColdFusion . Then, we recommend you take advantage of the online resources in the Getting Started with ColdFusion MX Resource Center. These provide further information about the technologies behind dynamic applications and step-by-step tutorials that demonstrate how to build introductory dynamic applications with ColdFusion. If you are familiar with ColdFusion, or other web programming languages like ASP, PHP, JSP or Perl, the later chapters in this guide provide more in depth information about the features in ColdFusion that make it the most powerful rapid application development environment on the Internet. Once you've completed the guide, we suggest you download the more advanced tutorials and experience first-hand the full capabilities of ColdFusion MX. Everything you need, including tutorials, downloads, support, and more is waiting for you at our Getting Started with ColdFusion MX Resource Center. To visit the Resource Center go to http://www.macromedia.com/software/coldfusion/resources/get_started/ We know you will enjoy working with ColdFusion MX, Dreamweaver MX, and Macromedia Flash MX. Have fun experiencing how easily you can develop the next generation of Rich Internet Applications. 5