Same story everywhere, except the US I guess. Macromedia is just too late with unique features. It was BlueDragon who had to come up with the feature of deploying compiled ColdFusion apps first despite the fact it was widely requested (since v4.0 people requested it) as a builtin functionality in ColdFusion. And seriously, I want a product that runs, is stable, but through the years .. ColdFusion always had the sense of being unstable. <= 5 locking up and being thread unsafe, 6.* too much Java dependent stability .. (increase this heap, decrease that heap, do this with memory, do that, check for GC size, monitor this, monitor that..) I just want a product that runs out of the box stable without setting up several failover instances.. and yes, under load, not only my average personal administration but also the applications we sell to our customers. And those issues aren't caused by bad code.
I am not saying the product is dying but I haven't got the feeling it is growing either, it remains a niche product and it if I believe our sales team, they have a hard time selling the product. I am committed in learning other languages; no Cold Fusion jobs would mean no paycheck. And if you really look at it, why would you choose ColdFusion?, the only thing I could come up with is the low learning curve. Every language has a learning curve, but once you get over it you can use the language like any other product. The most important things in building applications are the experiences from previous projects. And looking at ASP.NET, my apps in C# are astonishing quick, structured, can be deployed anywhere, and too be honest I didn't found the learning curve to be that steep, it is just different. Micha Schopman Software Engineer Modern Media, Databankweg 12 M, 3821 AL Amersfoort Tel 033-4535377, Fax 033-4535388 KvK Amersfoort 39081679, Rabo 39.48.05.380 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Special thanks to the CF Community Suite Gold Sponsor - CFHosting.net http://www.cfhosting.net Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:184531 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=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
