>Well it's a bit hard for CF, because of the pricing model. CF is priced per >Server, meanwhile all the other technologies you mention can be hosted for >(relatively) free. .NET makes it up by selling more Windows Server >licenses, and PHP and RoR are free. > >Microsoft has done a good job advertising to universities, where they pretty >much give away a copy of Visual Studio to every student. This is something >that is free for them, and it helps push the universities to teach .NET, and >C#, etc. > >Once students graduate, they will bring these skills to the workplace, and >MS will make money by selling more Windows Servers (for hosting), and Visual >Studio (for development). > >Although Adobe has free development editions, the educational editions are >not free (I think they should be). I believe every university should run >their websites in CF as a marketing tool. (Mine recently converted from CF >4.5 to PHP. If they were using MX+, I doubt they would've converted). > >Adobe should also push to have ColdFusion taught as part of the curriculum >(at least as an elective) instead of ASP.NET, or at least as an alternative. >They should provide free and easy educational materials that teachers can >use to teach CF. > >I would love to volunteer to teach CF in my alma mater, but I wouldn't even >know where to start in terms of teaching materials. Having a lab with a CF >server on every computer is going to require powerful hardware, and running >a developer edition on a shared server is not allowed as per Adobe. > >Maybe if Adobe got their act together, we'd have a lot more graduates >actually knowing what CF is and not thinking that it's a piece of crap that >most people remember from the v 4.5 days. > >Just my $0.02 > >Russ > >>
As I sit here, a newbie at learning Cold Fusion, I'm thinking back to the fact that since I first got my taste of Dreamweaver and Cold Fusion back in 1999, I've been a Zealot. I was taught Dreamweaver but only enough Cold Fusion (by my Zealot Instructor) to learn how to do a mailback form. When I compared how clean the code was to Active Server Pages, I was "done." Nothing runs as clean and stable as Cold Fusion, with as deep a set of capabilities. The downside is that it's so hard to find a place to learn it, unless one takes it upone oneself to do so, which I finally have the time to do. Here I sit at 1:30AM, really too bleary eyed to be typing. I myself have some consternation at Adobe and Macromedia for their price points on Cold Fusion and their unwillingness to make it more competative with .NET and other technologies, and not making it more available to the academic community. I don't know bupkis yet about Cold Fusion but I've seen what it CAN do; and IMHO it's the Ferrarri of Web Application Development technology and the rest are "also-rans." It's too bad that it's such a hard sell to middle and lower level business. Clean, stable, extensible, fits like a glove with Dreamweaver. So, what else can anyone want? I hate working in anything else, although I do if I'm forced to. Signed, The old Newbie Zealot. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:298415 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
