1995/1996 Was not the height of the .COM bubble, in fact the .Com was not a twinkle in anyone's eyes.
It was 1995 when firmware contacted our company, took us along to a confernce/luncheon and gave us a pack full of ColdFusion stuff. And next thing we began coding ColdFusion from that point onwards. On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 3:13 PM, Robin Hilliard <[email protected]>wrote: > Andrew, this is what Adobe have _already_ done for CF in the last year in > Australia. > > Australia represents 2% of the global market. If you look at what Adobe are > doing for CF in Australia in terms of sponsorships, speakers, UG catering > funding etc we are very, very well supported. All that remains is for the > rest of the community to step forward and make a real investment of time and > probably money (like the UG managers, Geoff, Mark and others have already > been doing for a while) in support of their platform. (And I'm not talking > about just companies using CF, I'm talking about YOU individual developers, > YOUR time and YOUR wallet - in my case that's meant the same thing anyway > since 2004). > > And as the only former Allaire ANZ employee on the list (?) can I just > point out that the marketing activities Firmware were carrying out: > > - Were happening at the height of the .com bubble, > - As a direct distributor for Allaire Firmware were working off a much > bigger margin than is usually the case for a reseller, > - Were largely around Spectra, which had an introductory price of $25K in a > market gone CMS mad. > > AFAIK events like WebDU and CFObjective ANZ put most of Firmware's events > in the shade. The only former Firmware employee on the list might want to > add something about that :-). > > As far as an evangelist goes, don't you already have several in ANZ? What > we need is continuing local support from the community, e.g Peter Robinson > helps Steve get the CFUG going again, and I fly in at my own expense to do a > talk (that is a standing offer to all ANZ user groups). Others follow > CFCAMP around Australia at their own expense to provide content for locals > who've nabbed a venue, or Geoff and Mark put 10s of 1000s of their own money > at risk to run a conference, with some Adobe sponsorship and speaker costs > of 10s of 1000s of dollars, so that people can complain about how there's no > local support for ColdFusion... hey that doesn't make sense*... > > Might I suggest also that being more open to looking at other technologies > is not automatically an evil thing, and one of the best ways for CF to get > in front of new people is to turn up at their user groups and find out what > they're talking about, then be ready when they ask "and what do you use?" > > Robin > > * I mean, get real! really!! Tell someone from one of the 99.9998% of > cities in the world that DON'T have a ColdFusion conference how > under-represented ColdFusion is in your city. > *ROBIN HILLIARD* > *Chief Technology Officer* > [email protected] > > RocketBoots Pty Ltd > Level 11 > 189 Kent Street > Sydney NSW 2001 > Australia > *Phone* +61 2 9323 2507 > *Facsimile* +61 2 9323 2501 > *Mobile* +61 418 414 341 > www.rocketboots.com.au > > -- 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.
