I know this thread is supposed to be dead, but I wanted to follow up what Ben had mentioned about CF in Gov.
Our branch was formed within the State Dept to consolidate all IT under one roof. We inheritied nasty asp applications that rely heavily in AD and msSQL. (ever try to change a domain on AD?) I don't really think I understood the defenition of 'stovepipe app' until I started here. They made a major shift away from outsourcing projects to contracting companies towards contracting positions internally. We standardized on J2EE and Oracle. The java guys out numbered us for about 6 months... until we knocked out a dozen enterprise CF apps, while thier entire team is still working on just two. Needless to say, all new applications are developed in CF and all of our older apps are ported to CF (asp, delphi, etc.) Any application deemed mission critical, or need to be integrated with other technologies are done in CF. I been constantly interviewing for CF positions for the past 8-9 months. Of course, we dont post our jobs on dice or monster. Contracting companines usually do thier own recruiting, plus the employee always gets shafted in salary and benefits. As a result the majority of the people we found through those sites didn't last past 2 months & had bad attitudes (tech-arrogance). -Adam ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Special thanks to the CF Community Suite Silver Sponsor - RUWebby http://www.ruwebby.com Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:187634 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
