I agree not only do they need to try and get classes into the colleges, they also need to teach the capabilities to the web staff of the colleges.
I took a class on web administration (required couldn't opt out even though I've been doing this a long time), and I used CF for my final project. When the instructor (also the director of the college web services) saw my icons for pdf files she asked me why I took the time to build pdfs. I told her they were dynamic, built on the fly. She thought I had pirated software to do it, until I showed her that it was built into ColdFusion. At the time (this was a few years ago) she was looking into options for generating pdfs on the fly and the costs for the software were more than buying ColdFusion. She had no idea. I really think that the push for getting this into colleges should go more to the community colleges (2 year) first. There has been a major trend at least in Michigan for people to go to community colleges first, then move on to 4 year institutions. If we suddenly had a lot more people trained in the technologies, business might consider it more viable. Steve -----Original Message----- From: Wil Genovese [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2010 9:53 PM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: Is it time for Adobe to Rebrand Cold Fusion? I knew Adobe had free educational licenses now, my point was more that I think Adobe really needs to market to the college computer science programs and even send people in to teach them how to setup and configure ColdFusion for high performance. Nothing will turn them off of ColdFusion faster than having a poorly configured CF server that crashes routinely. I would love to get into the various schools around MN to help them get ColdFusion servers up and running. Besides the small paycheck involved, I'd really love spreading the ColdFusion goodness. I've already done this for one college in MN. Cheers, Wil Genovese Sr. Web Application Developer/ Systems Administrator Wil Genovese Consulting [email protected] www.trunkful.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:334840 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
