J. Peter Bruzzese has written an article for InfoWorld entitled
Trade-offs of open source in the enterprise, and uses ColdFusion as the example to demonstrate why both open source and paid commercial offerings are needed. OpenBD's Alan Williamson and Adam Haskell are both quoted in this story.
Long time ColdFusion/Flex/AIR/ etc. friend, Chong-Bing Liu (aka Bing) wrote an article comparing RIA trends (including Flex, Silverlight, JavaFX, and Curl) by using Google Trends. The original article is in
Chinese, and he just just posted an
English translation.