On 30/05/2007, at 11:42 PM, Barry Beattie wrote: > Incorrect Robin > > I (with support from Sarah Barry who still works there) was teaching > 120+ students Coldfusion as part of the CertIV of IT at QANTM College, > Brisbane. ICAITB070A was the unit. Plus projects. For nearly 10 > months.
I didn't remember that it was a unit in a TAFE course - I stand corrected. > Macromedia (at the time) did not lift a finger in support. You were > working for them at the time. I seem to remember a lot of email correspondence, some site visits and the like. > giving licences away to an educational institution would have reaped > benefits to this day and beyond. Do you mean (a) giving some educational licenses to QANTM for it's own use, or (b) giving away commercial licenses to each student? In the case of (a) the education price of CF is already very low and I don't see how that would have affected the student's future career path - if you mean that it would have affected your management's decision on whether or not to continue with CF, that would be a strange criteria, to dump a course with 120 students for the sake of a few hundred dollars. In the case of (b) you would be asking for almost $200,000 worth of software. > Next year, change of management and I was gone, CF was out and PHP was > in because the "new broom" didn't want to spend one cent on server > technology. Is there any amount of money or support from Macromedia that would have stopped that from happening? > considering the number of students going through the place, that's a > lot of lost embassidors. So the student thought process goes something like "sure I just spent several months learning ColdFusion, but the vendor didn't give me a free commercial license so I won't use it"? Robin ______________ Robin Hilliard Director - RocketBoots Pty Ltd Consulting . Recruitment . Software Licensing . Training http://www.rocketboots.com.au m +61 418 414 341 e [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 30/05/2007, at 11:42 PM, Barry Beattie wrote: > > Incorrect Robin > > I (with support from Sarah Barry who still works there) was teaching > 120+ students Coldfusion as part of the CertIV of IT at QANTM College, > Brisbane. ICAITB070A was the unit. Plus projects. For nearly 10 > months. > > from simple CFLOOP thru to MVC archetecture with CFC's. > > of that, 2 people I know went on to be good coldFusion programmers > (G'day Rob.S). possibly more. > > > 120 students. Jesus! think of the viral marketing of that. > > Macromedia (at the time) did not lift a finger in support. You were > working for them at the time. > > giving licences away to an educational institution would have reaped > benefits to this day and beyond. > > Next year, change of management and I was gone, CF was out and PHP was > in because the "new broom" didn't want to spend one cent on server > technology. > > considering the number of students going through the place, that's a > lot of lost embassidors. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "cfaussie" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cfaussie?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
