I had to throw this in: "One of IBM's senior venture capital investment authorities is encouraging software start-ups to follow the money, and back the LAMP open source stack.
According to Drew Clark, director of strategic insights for IBM's venture capital group, building software using Linux, Apache, MySQL and Perl/PHP/Python (LAMP) is one of the key requisites for VC investment today" http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/05/30/vcs_warm_to_lamp/ I'm a huge fan of CF, but in the UK CF jobs are becoming rarer than hens teeth while PHP is going from strength to strength. It depresses me, but I think CF is becoming increasingly seen as a specialist high end solution due to the way Macromedia are now going for the enterprise market almost exclusively. The danger is that the various components of LAMP are just getting better and better, the pool of developers is growing in size and quality, and large public and private organisations are seriously considering and implementing LAMP projects, where that will leave CF in 5 years I just don't know :( I have an interview tomorrow for an organisation that uses CF, I really hope I get the job as it's the first local CF position I have seen for months and I hate to think when the next one may come up. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:208338 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
