It's a cost/benefit ratio thing. CF is expensive, the past owners have not been customer/user friendly and it has a lousy editor (DW).
If PHP existed back when CF 2 or 3 existed, there would be no discussion, CF would not currently exist. My 2 cents. At 06:57 PM 11/30/2006, you wrote: >"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:262340 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
