On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 8:16 AM, Donna Bing <[email protected]> wrote: > I think you're completely wrong about open source being a small movement in > federal government. In fact, I think that was one of Obama's first executive > actions. Maybe it hasn't taken off yet, but everyone I know in USDA, > Treasury, State and the contractor community is working furiously at slashing > IT budgets by moving to OSS and cloud computing. > > I know this must be awkward for adobe, because I don't think anyone will > paying traditional licensing for anything a year or two from now. I think > the only money to be made is going to be in tooling and code generation. The > language itself already does more than I'm ever going to need to do...
Interesting to hear an alternative viewpoint to what came up in the recent thread I started about the Washington Post announcement that the 520 House sites were moving to Drupal: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/thread.cfm/threadid:62471 In that thread, the general feeling seemed to be that the move to Drupal was an isolated event and Dave Watts in particular seemed very bullish about ColdFusion's position within federal government agencies. See you at the OpenCF Summit! -- 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 At ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:341031 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
