My guess is that Adobe makes a small but reliable profit with ColdFusion, and therefore has very little incentive to spend money marketing it. They are probably quite happy collecting license fees and paying a few devs to crank out new versions.
This bodes well in that as long as it is profitable they won't kill it entirely, but it's certainly no way to grow the product. -- Josh On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 5:41 PM, Michael Grant <[email protected]> wrote: > > No. I'm comparing little apples (Allaire) to bigger apples (Macromedia) to > enormous apples (Adobe). > > I've been using CF for many many years. I've done a lot to spread the word > in my neck of the woods. I've been laughed at for years for my choice of > go-to languages. I've talked until I'm blue in the face defending CF > against > all the uninformed opinions and pre-conceived notions. I've had to convince > clients why CF is a good choice. I've fought the good fight since v4. And I > have noticed, as I'm sure others have, that since Adobe purchased > Macromedia > CF seems to be treated like the ugly cousin that came with Flash. > > It's about optics. And since Adobe got CF it is virtually invisible in the > dev world outside of it's community. It's can't be all left up to the user > base to make the product successful. Where we're at right now with CF is as > far as the community can take it. > > That's what I think anyway. For whatever that's worth. > > > > On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 8:21 PM, Matt Quackenbush <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > > > Hmm. Isn't that exactly what you (and others) are doing, too? Comparing > > apples to oranges? > > > > > > On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 7:18 PM, Michael Grant wrote: > > > > > > > > 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. > > > > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:340821 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
