It was really hard for us to tiptoe away from ColdFusion and toward ASP.NET after all these years, but we just couldn't deny what was happening:
* Most of the popular sites were either not written in ColdFusion, or were trying to move away from it. * Most of the largest businesses didn't run on ColdFusion, and those that did were in the process of moving to another platform. And don't count Adobe; they switched to ColdFusion for obvious political reasons (how would it have looked if they didn't eat their own dog food?). * We kept hearing about companies wanting to reengineer their entire enterprises using .NET because of what it offered both on the Internet and off. * There was only so far we could go in this industry if we stuck to ColdFusion. BlueDragon.NET was a great step forward, but once we got into things like SharePoint and Workflow Foundation, it was clear that an all-.NET solution was going to work best when we had to cover the entire enterprise. The more we've moved into .NET, the better our business has been, and the more we've been able to do for our clients. We still do some CFML (almost entirely on BlueDragon.NET), but new projects are typically ASP.NET-based. If you want a glimpse of how far you can go with .NET, go to your local bookstore and thumb all the way through a recent copy of MSDN magazine. Then for the sake of comparison, thumb through a recent copy of CFDJ Magazine (if you can find it on the magazine rack). Compare the content of the two magazines, and ask yourself which one best represents the best future for you as a professional developer. Then go to Amazon.com and search for ASP.NET titles published within the most recent three years (just ASP.NET; we're not even talking about the other .NET-related technologies that businesses are clamoring for, like SharePoint and Windows Presentation Foundation). Then do the same for ColdFusion titles. BTW, if you're interested in fast-tracking into ASP.NET/C#, we have one seat left in our intensive class coming up the week of June 4. It's a ballbuster (5 days, 8AM-7PM) and you'll need to bring your game face, but you'll leave knowing how to build applications in ASP.NET and C#. And it will give you a bit more perspective on why I stated what I did. Respectfully, Adam Phillip Churvis Get advanced intensive Master-level training in C# & ASP.NET 2.0 for ColdFusion Developers at ProductivityEnhancement.com -----Original Message----- From: OÄuz Demirkapı [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2007 11:43 AM To: CF-Community Subject: Is CF dying? (Of course not!) Has anybody seen this? http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&arti cleId=9020942&pageNumber=2 *5. ColdFusion* This once-popular Web programming language -- released in the mid-1990s by Allaire Corp. (which was later purchased by Macromedia Inc., which itself was acquired by Adobe Systems Inc.) -- has since been superseded by other development platforms, including Microsoft Corp.'s Active Server Pages and .Net, as well as Java, Ruby on Rails, Python, PHP and other open-source languages. Debates continue over whether ColdFusion is as robust and scalable as its competitors, but nevertheless, premiums paid for ColdFusion programmers have dropped way off, according to Foote. "It was really popular at one time, but the market is now crowded with other products," he says. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade & integrate Adobe Coldfusion MX7 with Flex 2 http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJP Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:235471 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
