"I will say that for a few years now I've been suspicious of the actual revenue numbers generated by ColdFusion, how that revenue breaks down between maintenance versus new licenses for new versions, new customer growth trend, and how that trend's growth pattern compares to the overall growth patterns of other platforms. Saying that overall revenue has grown can indicate any number of things; the devil's in the details."
In Adam's defense, I think many of us have had the same suspicion. The number of shared hosting providers offering ColdFusion support has hardly increased. At least by my observation. In addition, it is not everyday (or week for that matter) that I come across a website that is using ColdFusion. However, I couldn't count how many times I come across PHP websites. There is a subtle increase in the number of open source projects for ColdFusion, but most of them are by the same people who have been contributing to the community for years (Camden, Helms, Woodward, Farrell, etc.). ASP.NET and PHP are being taught on community and university campuses in increasing numbers. At my community college, they just dropped the ColdFusion class in favor of ASP.NET. I have no idea what the future holds for ColdFusion, but the fact that these discussion keep coming up reveals that Adam is not the only one from within the community who has a sneaking suspicion that ColdFusion is not doing as well as we would like. Not to say that it is doing bad, but that it is not competing with alternatives such as Ruby, PHP and ASP.NET (all of which are free by the way). -Aaron ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:262332 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
