I live in Surrey and work in London, I have seen a decline on the job boards for Coldfusion - Some of that most certainly due to the recession :( but alot due to CIO's following the trends. I currently work for a company that has ditched CF and moved to C#.net all because the new CIO came from taht background.
A number of other big players in London are also ditching CF and moving to .net which I find really frustrating, I guarantee this is all decisions made at the top - The upper management in organisations dont understand the value of CF and I blame alot of that on the bad press coverage that Adobe provides. I am a die hard CF fan but I am finding myself having to go down a C#.net route to retain the daily rates I am getting. If I look on jobserve.co.ukand search for CF roles there are like 3 pages covering the whole of the UK, if I do the same search for C#.net there are about 20+ pages of roles. This frustrates hell out of me. CF is AWESOME and i want to continue using it!!! Jose On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 9:42 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:329899 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
