> Subject: Microsoft sponsoring CFUNITED-05
> From: Sean Corfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 21:29:27 -0700
> It's old news (and you posted it *five* times!). Microsoft has been
> listed as a sponsor for ages.
Yes, old news. Microsoft committed much sooner and earlier than Macromedia.
> FWIW, Microsoft was also a notable sponsor of MXDU and hosted a full
> cooked breakfast on the Friday morning... to pitch Visual Studio and
> ..NET 2.0... to a less-than-impressed audience who wondered
> what any of
> it had to do with programming (seriously! that was one of the more
> charitable comments I heard about Microsoft's presentation and I heard
> it from a number of people who attended the breakfast!). Many other
> conference attendees said that even a free cooked breakfast wasn't
> worth it to listen to Microsoft's marketing pitch. I guess the
> Australian CF developers are less-swayed by .NET's FUD than many
> American CF developers?
Hmm... who's "FUD-flinging" here??
Some facts according to a recent Forrester study about the organizations
that employ most of those "American CF developers":
- 56% of respondents use .NET for most of their development
(61% for organizations with 1,000 to fewer than 5,000 employees)
- .NET is the primary development platform in 5 of 7 industry
groups.
Despite the natural tendency of many to ignore more than half the IT
population due to Macromedia's lack of native support for CFML on .NET, the
need to redeploy, integrate and extend CFML applications natively on .NET is
equally (and arguable more) valid than doing so on J2EE.
Not to diminish or refute the experiences at MXDU, but perhaps with the
recent release of BlueDragon 6.2 (with a version that enables CFML to be
used as a native .NET web-scripting language) Microsoft may have numerous
things to say of direct relevance to the CFML community. After all, they
have the dominant deployment platform. ..and better development tools ...and
offer a better fit for the typical CFML developer skill set...
> BTW, Macromedia are the Platinum Sponsor for CFUNITED - the only
> sponsor at that level - and they are sending several of the ColdFusion
> product team to present and be available for you to quiz about CFMX 7!
Yes, finally. ...after much delay, kicking, clawing and screaming too...
> Sean A Corfield -- http://corfield.org/
> Team Fusebox -- http://fusebox.org/
> Got Gmail? -- I have 50, yes 50, invites to give away!
>
> "If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive."
> -- Margaret Atwood
Glad to see you're well and alive...
Regards,
Dan
Daniel Ganter
New Atlanta Communications
www.newatlanta.com
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