[cfaussie] Re: ColdFusion trend?

[Andrew Scott]

The trends by Google seem to be based on search patterns, my conclusion and it’s a guess that more Coldfusion developers don’t need to search fro coldfusion problems because of the support network.   1)       Coldfusion is still successful, and is getting into more large scale sites the problem is that CF is being used more for intranets that will not be picked up google or any search engine. With people developing the likes of Coldspring (Java spring in CF) then you get the idea that it is moving in huge bounds, or even with ORM’s like Reactor, CFHibernate and Mark Mandel’s Transfer gives CF even more power. 2)       It hasn’t fallen behind, so I am not sure where you get these figures from. If you listen to the likes of Sean Corfield it is moving ahead in leaps and bounds. 3)       Every scripting language has made significant leaps and bounds, CFMX7 offered more buck for your money with gateways etc, which ASP.Net has but you need to write your own code to do this. The introduction of reports in cf to name a few of the leaps CF has made. 4)       Yes there are very few good developers, because with people like your boss who can’t see the good it is no wonder fewer developers are left.     Now these are my opinions, and although I agree that CF has dropped a little. Its support is strong, and the technology is just getting stronger. We are mainly a java house here, but we still do CF and my Boss has come from the CF world and if Adobe where to adopt the same technique with CF as they did with flex2 then he will not hesitate to use CF more.         Senior Coldfusion Developer Aegeon Pty. Ltd. www.aegeon.com.au Phone: +613  8676 4223 Mobile: 0404 998 273   From: cfaussie@googlegroups.com [mailto:cfaussie@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of George Lu Sent: Tuesday, 17 October 2006 9:13 AM To: CFAussie Mailing List Subject: [cfaussie] ColdFusion trend?   My boss asked me to get on ASP.NET. I asked him why. He's given me following reasons:   --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- One indication of popularity is the trend of searches that are made on google: http://www.google.com/trends?q=ColdFusion&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all http://www.google.com/trends?q=ASP.NET&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all In short the following * Was a very successful language with large-scale sites in the early days * Has fallen behind in recent years * Other technologies like ASP.NET have made significant strides in recent years * Very few good programmers available -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- What do you think? George --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "cfaussie" group. To post to this group, send email to cfaussie@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cfaussie -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---