> So just because that is the way things have been, they should continue? > Come on Dave... Imagine if people saw a big market for CF and companies > knew the full extent of its capabilities. Imagine of Adobe spent as much as > it does for Flash or Photoshop in getting the word out as it does for CF. > Having a smaller pool of developers is beneficial to us as it keeps our > rates high, but that is not sustainable. I find more and more companies > moving away from CF...partly because of misconceptions about the product and > partly because of the difficulty of finding developers period...let alone > good developers. Most CF shops I have been to (here in the US)are mostly > staffed with folks from, India because they can't find any American > developers because the American developers are already employed, or they > have moved on to other languages that have a larger corporate audience. > Don't you think that it would behoove Adobe to go out and do some marketing > and get some good awareness of CF and get the facts out? The status quo is > not working...we are hemorrhaging companies that use CF...Hel...there was a > discussion earlier this week about how the government is even going away > from CF. Sounds to me like Adobe (as Macromedia did) sat on CF's laurels in > the marketing department and didn't do much to grow the business.
I think that Adobe will do what behooves Adobe. Adobe wants to make a profit on CF sales. There have been discussions FOREVER about how everyone's abandoning CF. We could have been having this same conversation ten years ago. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ http://training.figleaf.com/ Fig Leaf Software is a Veteran-Owned Small Business (VOSB) on GSA Schedule, and provides the highest caliber vendor-authorized instruction at our training centers, online, or o ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:340886 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
