it wasn't that part that surprised me. when i first heard that MS was going to be there, I assumed it was for 'recruitment' purposes.
what surprised me more was that an 'organizer' of a CF conference allegedly made the statement that "nobody does [use coldfusion]". On 8/4/05, Larry C. Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I read the thing, and was at CFUnited. M$ did have a large presence > there and were giving out a lot of stuff. Every attendee got an > ASP.Net book in his pack. > > larry > > On 8/3/05, Charlie Griefer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/AardvarkMidtermReport.html > > > > skip down to 'The Conference' > > > > "For some reason, a long long time ago, I had agreed to give the > > keynote speech for CFUNITED, a conference about ColdFusion. > > > > "I never used ColdFusion!" I protested. > > > > "Don't worry. Nobody has. The biggest sponsor of this conference is > > Microsoft, who have a huge presence trying to get the ColdFusion > > developers to switch to VB.NET," the organizers told me." > > > > > > curious who those 'organizers' were. I can't imagine that coming from > > anybody at Teratech. > > > > -- > > Charlie Griefer > > > > ================================================ > > "...All the world shall be your enemy, Prince with a Thousand Enemies, > > and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch > > you, digger, listener, runner, prince with a swift warning. > > Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed." > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Find out how CFTicket can increase your company's customer support efficiency by 100% http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=49 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:167967 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
