Gotcha. And I'm guessing that Adobe's numbers are worldwide, and not in one geographic region.
-----Original Message----- From: Mike Kear [mailto:afpwebwo...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2010 8:46 AM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: Why i fear ColdFusion is on its last legs in Australia On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 1:21 AM, Andy Matthews <li...@commadelimited.com> wrote: > > Actually Adobe has been saying since cf.Objective 2009 (I was there in > person) that their user based has grown 300% over the last 5 years. > From 250k users around 2004 to over 800k users in 2008/2009. > In Australia?? Really?? > It just seems like that unless you're personally looking for a CF job > and can't find one, why do you care if other people think CF is dead? > > Because that was the reason my biggest client gave for going to DotNet last year. They told me that they had decided that ColdFusion was a dead product, Adobe was doing nothing with it, developers were hard to find. They said I was a nice guy but they had too many eggs in one basket and if anything happened to me they were very exposed. Therefore they were going to DotNet where they could find 50 developers tomorrow if they wanted them and Microsoft wasn't going to ignore the server market in the forseeable future. Thats what they said. I am not saying I agree. In fact we debated back and forth quite vigorously but in the end they went DotNet and my relationship with them ended. > 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 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:329918 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
