Surely most of the people who read Mike's original message do not live in Australia and do not have first-hand knowledge of the state of CF there. However, Mike's subject was not "Why i fear ColdFusion is on its last legs in Australia" and several of his points seemed to be non-Australia-specific.
http://www.indeed.com.au/jobs?q="coldfusion"+or+"cold+fusion"; ...returns 32 jobs: 1 CF job for every 691,348 Australians. http://www.indeed.com/jobs?q="coldfusion"+OR+"cold+fusion"; ...returns 2,644 jobs: 1 CF job for every 116,688 Americans. On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 3:42 AM, Andrew Scott <[email protected]>wrote: > > Not in Australia, and Mike is right the jobs are not there for ColdFusion > developers in Australia. > > Australia is not in a recession, America might be. But we refuse to > acknowledge this, and our economy here is actually very strong in a lot of > areas. > > The job market here has continued to reflect that Companies are moving to > other technologies because it is getting harder and harder to get good > ColdFusion developers. This has not changed in the last 10 years. > > If anyone wishes to reflect that we are in a recession then please Explain > how the jobs for ColdFusion began declining in 1999, and have continued to > drop for ColdFusion? > > Again let me say this, the Australian IT industry is thriving, just not the > ColdFusion side of it. If there are no developers to replace, then the > companies have no choice but to look at moving to another technology where > developers and resources can be replaced, this hasn't changed in the last > 10 > years either. > > It really sickens me that the excuse of a recession is used, are you saying > that we have been in a recession for the last 10 years Sean? I don't thinks > so. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Sean Corfield [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, 21 January 2010 6:03 PM > To: cf-talk > Subject: Re: Why i fear ColdFusion is on its last legs > > > The pool of CFers is constantly growing. Rates are still higher for > CFers than most other web technologies. There are more CFML > conferences and events than ever. > > But there is a recession going on - and that hurts everyone. > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:329896 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
