>Be that as it may, *I* am a CF Developer. >I want to push CF to my clients and want to raise awareness of the >platform which I and my company use. >The recent marketing campaign did not help me in that regard AT all. > >Do I think there are more ASP and PHP developers out there who need to >be made aware of Dreamweaver? Yes. > >Do I think there are more people -both developers and future clients- >out there that need to be made aware of CF period than ASP and PHP? Yes. >Do I think that not mentioning CF while marketing the DWMX IDE helps >raise awareness of CF? No. >Do I think that Macromedia's DWMX 2004 marketing campaign has helped me >as a CF Developer/Web shop? No. > >Refute that if you like, I stand by my statements.
I have a quick question for you, since this is the second time you've suggested it. Are you saying that your clients will choose whether or not to give you work based on the IDE you use? Further, are you saying that you pitch CF as a solution to your clients partly because of DW MX? I'm sorry, but that just sounds ludicrous to me -- how I do my work is inconsequential to getting it done as far as the client is concerned. I think Macromedia has a lot of other positives you can point to if you need to pitch their stability as a company to your client (which, again, I think is ludicrous). Look, I understand you're not very happy with DW 2004 (even though it sounds like you haven't even seen it yet). And yes, I would agree that there's probably been some marketing missteps regarding the CF community (as others have pointed out, including some employees themselves). But you're making an awful lot of noise about a non-released product. If you're so dissatisfied, can you direct your frustrations to the proper people at Macromedia. I'm sure you'll be able to find their e-mail addresses on their web site. I'd like to get back to learning/helping people on the list with technical issues. Regards, Dave. _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8: Get 6 months for $9.95/month. http://join.msn.com/?page=dept/dialup ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=t:4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com
