FWIW. ColdFusion has been growing rapidly in the public sector the past few quarters. While I won't disagree that some organizations may be shifting to open source technologies, I would argue that it's far from the majority. For CF specifically, I think the expanding ColdFusion job market in Washington, DC is a strong indicator of that.
Donna, did you ever attend CFUnited (the flagship ColdFusion conference located in the DC area)? You might also be happy to know that there will likely be a new ColdFusion conference in the DC area this August. -Adam Ex-government contractor Long-time DC metro resident Product Manager for ColdFusion at Adobe On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 7:56 PM, Donna Bing <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thanks for all the responses. > > AJ thanks for the cfhour link - I actually didn't even know about that > podcast. > > Thanks Roger, I'll look at NCDevCon > > Derek - yeah you are totally correct: one CIO and management in all the > agencies > we contract with are talking more and more about slashing it budgets. > > I think we're probably a little ahead of the curve though: we moved to > http://OpenBlueDragon.org/ a year ago and I think our only licensing costs > are > now for sql server, which we'll probably be dumping soon. Most of our > agencies > are also moving rapidly to cloud computing, for which I understand > bluedragon is > particularly well suited. > > Anyway I agree we need a conference like this in the d.c. area. > > thanks > > -Donna Bing > > > > > > > > ________________________________ > From: Roger Austin <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Cc: Donna Bing <[email protected]> > Sent: Tue, January 18, 2011 8:38:17 AM > Subject: Re: Anyone know anything about this new ColdFusion conference? > > ---- Donna Bing <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Ever since CFUnited closed up shop, I've been looking around for an > affordable > > > substitute. I'm local in the Northern Virginia area, so I saved on > lodging and > > > > travel. > > That conference looks like it would be fun, but I have limited funds for > those > sorts of things so I won't be there. That conference is oriented to open > source > CFML which is an interesting idea. I tend to look first for things in my > area > of North Carolina (Research Triangle Park) which is rich in meetups and > different > > local conferences. > > You may want to look into NCDevCon which has been free in the past and is > located > > within driving distance from NoVa. It has been a two day conference that > had > nationally known presenters, many who used it as a test for their CFUnited > talks. > > We had a number of visitors from up there so you could always plan to > carpool > with other NoVa folks. Talk with attendees from CFinNC in 2009 and NCDevCon > in > 2010 to get the lowdown on it. I can not be an unbiased source as a member > of > the > > host organization TACFUG. > > No date has been set for NCDevCon 2011 assuming it is held. There will be > plenty > > of publicity including messages here if and when something happens. > > -- > LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/roger-austin/8/a4/60 > Twitter: http://twitter.com/RogerTheGeek > Blog: http://rogerthegeek.wordpress.com/ > http://www.misshunt.com/ Home of the Clean/Dirty Magnet > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:341015 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
