Interesting, John. Actually of those 32 jobs om Australia, 4 are in Sydney, the biggest city in the country,
One is for a .NET developer and exposure to Coldfusion would be an advantage, Another is for a FLASH developer with some exposure to Coldfusion. So those two arent really coldfusion jobs. So that leaves 2 jobs in a city of 4.5million people. One of those isnt really a coldfusion job - its coldfusion related - they're looking for a front-end developer in a web agency that uses coldfusion for their dynamic pages. let's say its half a coldfusion job. That means there are 1.5 coldfusion jobs according to Indeed.com.au. It's a paradox, but I think Andrew's right - the ColdFusion sites are steadily changing to other technologies - .Net or php mostly or java for the larger ones. At least that's my perception. Last year i had my 3 biggest clients tell me they weren't doing any more development in Coldfusion - they were switching to .NET in two cases, and Java in the other case. I'm not trying to whine and say Adobe should solve all my problems. But it is a worrying trend, and I'd like to know what (if anything) is being done to reverse it. Right now, it seems no one really is putting too much effort into creating new ColdFusion sites, at least here in Sydney. From what I see anyway. Cheers Mike Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia Adobe Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer AFP Webworks http://afpwebworks.com ColdFusion, PHP, ASP, ASP.NET hosting from AUD$15/month On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 11:53 PM, John M Bliss <bliss.j...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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. > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:329900 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
