Is this really that big of a deal? Or is that what you are trying to find out? According to the Adobe folks that sales were strong for CF 8 and that the market share and/or numbers of developers is growing. Are we just tormenting ourselves with another round of "CFID" related FUD?
thanx G! On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 8:53 PM, Sean Corfield <seancorfi...@gmail.com>wrote: > > I saw Blue River (the Mura folks) tweet this today: > > http://twitter.com/#!/brinteractive/statuses/25246946570534912<http://twitter.com/#%21/brinteractive/statuses/25246946570534912> > > They reference the Washington Post article about the House migrating > 520 websites from "a mix of proprietary and open-source content > management platforms" to Drupal. > > The other day, I saw a job post on a CFUG list looking for a Java > architect with CF experience to lead a migration from ColdFusion to > Java for a federal agency in the Bay Area, California. > > I don't want to start one of those interminable "CF is dying" threads > but I am curious as to how many people had seen these stories and what > they thought in the context of the US government following many other > world governments in a push for FOSS (Free Open Source Software) > solutions? I'm also curious about how Drupal and, say, Mura or FarCry > compare since I'm not familiar enough with all of them to make such a > comparison. > > The government has always been a pretty strong area for ColdFusion > (does someone here know how long ColdFusion has been so deeply > embedded in government? I get the impression it long predates my > exposure to ColdFusion - 2001). At CFUnited in 2009, a government IT > guy approached me and told me his department had been mandated to move > to FOSS and he was researching a proposal to cross-train his team in > PHP and rewrite all their CFML applications. How many folks here work > within the government and can comment on this sort of thing? > -- > Sean A Corfield -- (904) 302-SEAN > Railo Technologies, Inc. -- http://getrailo.com/ > An Architect's View -- http://corfield.org/ > > "If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive." > -- Margaret Atwood > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:340777 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
