I didn't miss his point at all. Don't interpret a differing opinion as a lack of understanding. He's comparing free open source products (apples) to extremely expensive products (oranges) and saying the reason it isn't successful is because the community hasn't evangelized enough. I don't think that's accurate.
It certainly seems obvious that Adobe and I have different opinions of what success is for ColdFusion. If Adobe thinks CF is successful in the marketplace then that's great. Good for them. As CF continues to lose devs they can continue to get a warm fuzzy that they've sold a few copies. I'll continue to love the language and lament that Adobe ever bought it. On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 8:08 PM, Matt Quackenbush <[email protected]>wrote: > > Of course it is (now) Adobe's responsibility to make its offerings (CF, in > this case) successful in the marketplace. And CF **is** extremely > successful in the marketplace. You and Adobe's idea of marketplace just > happen to be two different things. But since their business relies on > their > marketplace, their opinion is the only one that matters. > > All of that said, you entirely missed Sean's point, which was, by the way, > accurate. :-) > > On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 6:47 PM, Michael Grant wrote: > > > > > It's not the responsibility of a company to make it's offerings > successful > > in the marketplace? > > If the success of CF isn't Adobe's responsibility then who's is it? > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:340812 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
