it would be interesting to see the figures by region/country
2010/1/21 Andy Matthews <li...@commadelimited.com> > > 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:329921 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
