Here is the exact wording of various parts of the September 2002 paper, "Application Development Skill and Technology Trends":
"Gartner's analysis indicates that the use of JavaScript and VBScript will grow by 2 percent to 3 percent a year through 2006. During the same period, the use of Perl will be declining by the same 2 percent to 3 percent; and the use of ColdFusion will decline 10 percent a year. The growth of client-side scripts (i.e., JavaScript and VBScript) relates to the fact that de facto standard technologies - Java or Microsoft - cannot offer a competing technology for graphical user interface (GUI) development. On the server side, both Java and Microsoft are offering powerful JSP and ASP technologies. The latter will cause a decline in the current popularity of Perl and ColdFusion." "As a final word, Gartner offers IT executives and managers the following recommendations: .... Align AD technology and tool strategy with Microsoft or Java - or both. The rest have become niche areas." -----Original Message----- From: Dave Carabetta [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 25 February 2005 11:33 To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: CFMX Development Speed On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 23:19:42 +0800, James Holmes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tha last thing I read from Gartner told business managers to migrate > away from CF, Python etc to J2EE or .NET as the others were "niche products." > Perhaps that's a misinterpreted distillation of what they really said? If they really said that verbatim or something close, it just goes to show the analyst's ignorance. Based on the above, they essentially said "Migrate away from languages and move to platforms." CF is built *on top of* J2EE standards, and .NET is just a platform upon which several languages can be used to build applications, so it seems like they're suggesting to move from apples to oranges. Regards, Dave. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Logware (www.logware.us): a new and convenient web-based time tracking application. Start tracking and documenting hours spent on a project or with a client with Logware today. Try it for free with a 15 day trial account. http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=67 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:196546 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
