On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 9:43 AM, Dave Watts <dwa...@figleaf.com> wrote: > You know who's in a position to DO SOMETHING? It's you, not Adobe. > You're not satisfied with how Adobe markets their product? Market your > services with that product! You're not satisfied with their presence > in user groups and conferences? Get in those user groups and > conferences yourself! It's developers, not salesmen, who are > ultimately responsible for the success or failure of a programming > product.
This is why I get frustrated with some CFers who bemoan the lack of corporate marketing: all of the "competing technologies" have no corporate marketing - it's all about developer community. Except .NET of course - but .NET is only one of the "successful, hot" techs out there that certain CFers claim are eating CF's business. You could also argue Sun promotes Java (along with a few other big corporates). The point is that PHP, Ruby/Rails, etc - all the 'hot' techs that are free and open source - those are promoted by their communities. > Allaire, Macromedia, Adobe - whoever owns the product - can't > do that sort of thing. It takes developers. Or, as Steve Ballmer once > put it, "Developers, developers, DEVELOPERS!" Amen! -- Sean A Corfield -- (904) 302-SEAN Railo Technologies US -- http://getrailo.com/ An Architect's View -- http://corfield.org/ "If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive." -- Margaret Atwood ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:329949 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
