Sitting in the CFUnited http://cfunited.com, and heard a very interesting and relevant news for ChinaOpen:

ColdFusion will be available, free, to students and faculty for academic use!

Oh, just some background about CFUnited.
1. It is one of the largest (if not the largest) developer-community self-organized event.
2. In fact, Adobe would announce major technical news at this event. For example, Flex 3.0 product was built on the eve of CFUnited and released to the attendees on the opening ceremony of CFUnited.
3. Compared to the official Adobe event, the Adobe MAX http://max.adobe.com/, where obviously a lot of product and news will be announced -- but at least we at ChinaOpen feel, are more towards Sales and marketing news -- as well as "Client" software such as Photoshop -- whereas CFUnited is more towards to "Server" products (ColdFusion/Flex/AIR)

This year, there are some interesting news as well, and some very interesting revelations are:
1. The biggest problem of ColdFusion customers is -- the lack of available developers!
2. ColdFusion is doing very very well -- in fact, the best in history