(Title changed to protect the search engines;) I also agree that someone doesn't have an understanding of the ColdFusion job market. I recently had updated my resume on some of the job sites, and received literally hundreds of opportunities:
http://blog.cutterscrossing.com/index.cfm/2007/4/17/The-Current-ColdFusion-Job-Market I would also say that Adobe's marketing of CF is a heavy step up from the efforts of Allaire or Macromedia. Most of us do not see the heavy one-on-one behind the scenes stuff that's been going on with Adobe and the federal sector, which probably accounts for a large percentage of new server licenses (in the overall picture, but I'm speculating). I also think you will see a very large increase in ColdFusion marketing from Adobe when Scorpio is released. And, if you read through all of the posts following the Scorpio Tour stops, I'm pretty sure that Adobe will have quite a lot to say about their newest server product offering once it goes public. http://blog.cutterscrossing.com/index.cfm/2007/5/10/Scorpio-Tour-Nashville-Final-Wrapup It's a great time to be a ColdFusion developer, and it's only getting better. Steve "Cutter" Blades Adobe Certified Professional Advanced Macromedia ColdFusion MX 7 Developer _____________________________ http://blog.cutterscrossing.com Eric Roberts wrote: > We actually had this discussion about Tiobe and O'rielly. One of the main > reasons books sales are low is that CFWACK and the Advanced book are about > all we need. Ben, Ray, and the other authors did such a great job...we > don't really need O'Rielly's book (I actually thought their book was quite > useless...I bought the CFMX7 book and it is just collecting dust on my > shelf) I am not sure where Tiobe gets their info, but I sure see a lot of > large corps using CF. Using book sales to determine the popularity of a > language is about as useful as asking a shop that still uses as/400. > ColdFusion may neer be a giant thanks to lackluster marketing by Allaire, > Macromedia, and now Adobe,but it certainly is not in it's death throes. I > get calls almost every day for contracts dealing with ColdFusion and I get > paid quit well for them. > > Eric > > -----Original Message----- > From: John Paul Ashenfelter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, May 25, 2007 5:49 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: ComputerWorld declares CF dead > > On 5/25/07, Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX) > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Be sure and ask why VB6 and ASP classic are not listed ;-) > > While I'm no huge fan of either, if you look at objective metrics like > Tiobe http://www.tiobe.com/tpci.htm (VB6 #5 vs CF #32) or the latest > info from Tim O'Reilly's book sales information > http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/05/state_of_the_co_10.html (10% > market share among the major language sellers) you'll see that CF is > by those two metrics not very popular. > > It's still a poorly researched, sensational, and idiotic article in > ComputerWolrd (eg using the quote from an AS/400 shop to talk about > the PC network being dead? An *AS/400* shop?) but I think we're all > fooling ourselves if we think ColdFusion is poised for huge growth. > > The other interesting thing to take away from the O'Reilly article is > the growth of *Actionscript* (I'll confirm w/ my buddy there that they > include Flex there) but that's pretty solidly growing which is good > for Adobe and good for our community. The Flex session/BOF at > RailsConf in Portland last week overflowed into the hall which was > interesting to say the least. > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Andrew Scott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: 25 May 2007 09:50 >> To: CF-Talk >> Subject: Re: ComputerWorld declares CF dead >> >> I suggest if you really want to wake these people up send an email to: >> >> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] vice president/editor in chief >> >> Then maybe stupid stories will be edited correctly.... >> >> >> >> >> > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create Web Applications With ColdFusion MX7 & Flex 2. Build powerful, scalable RIAs. Free Trial http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJS Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:279236 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
