*shrugs* I see you want the last word. And that's ok. Like I said last time we'll have to agree to disagree.
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 10:44 PM, Dave Watts <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I'm not telling Adobe how to run their business. I'm telling other CF > devs > > my opinion on two specific topics as they relate to business. You make me > > sound like I'm at the gates with a pitchfork and torch. > > You're splitting some mighty fine hairs there. Clearly you have an > opinion on how Adobe should do things. > > > I never said they should rewrite any applications. You can mask the use > of > > php (or cf or any other language) without a whole lot of effort or > expense, > > in the grand scheme of things. You can still use PHP or Ruby or Klingon, > you > > just don't need to advertise it with ".php" at the end of the url. That's > > optics. And it's important. > > It's important ... to you. But it's not as easy as you make it out to > be. Adobe uses third parties to develop solutions, and they buy > third-party products and deploy them. I'm guessing they pay third > parties for ongoing support of things like Adobe Forums. They have > lots of different web properties, managed by different departments. > And again, it's not clear that there'd be any real benefit to doing > this. > > But it's always easy to tell other people what they need to do, I guess. > > > An argument could also be made that if one spent the last 10 years of > ones > > life fully immersed in the CF community, that one might actually have a > > fairly insular view of CF. One that would seem to argue against having > > a decent amount of exposure to the rest of the world. > > I guess that argument could be made, but perhaps you didn't read what > I wrote - I work with a lot of other technologies. I've worked with CF > for over ten years, but I also work with Java, ASP.NET, Google > Enterprise technologies, and a bunch of other things - and have for a > long time. And if you go on mailing lists for those other products, > you don't find developers talking about what's used on what web sites, > and how that reflects on anything meaningful. > > 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 onsite. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:341602 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
