Oh yeah, and for the people in house who converted from classic and .NET to CF. Lol, they wouldnt go back, even for a bump in salary.
-Adam On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 16:40:46 -0500, Adrocknaphobia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 - CFDynamics http://www.cfdynamics.com Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:187635 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
