Just dropping a line to say I read this thread in it's entirety and I sympathize. I wish I could offer a silver-bullet solution, but one does not exist. It's also unfortunate, but these problems are not unique to ANZ. I'll be sharing these sentiments with Alison (Marketing Manager) and point her to this thread, but alas, it's things we were already aware of.
It's still early, but we are really hoping our new resellers/partners in ANZ step up and promote ColdFusion in the manner Firmware was. It's hard to put into perspective, but Adobe has well over 125+ products. The Adobe AU office is small and only focuses on the big ticket items (LiveCycle, Connect, CS, etc.). This is really conundrum. If we want Adobe AU (or just Adobe in general) to be more involved w/ CF, then we would have to dramatically raise the price. Of course, other the other hand a significant portion of the market thinks ColdFusion is too expensive as it is and screamed bloody murder when we released CB. This is all underlined by a failing world economy and we can't ignore it's effect on the ColdFusion community. For every customer who doesn't upgrade or migrates to another technology like PHP, .NET or Railo, it's money that leave our ecosystem. Which means less money for marketing, conferences, user groups, documentation... this is what hurts the most about a company like JB-HI leaving CF. It's a vicious circle for sure, but I do believe we can turn it around... I'm planning on coming to Melbourne for cf.obj(ANZ). By then, I should be allowed to share some details on our strategy for ColdFusion X (albeit under NDA). To share a comment Shantanu Narayen made about CF X, "Go big, or go home". We certainly don't intend to go home. :-) -Adam ColdFusion Product Manager Long-time fan of ColdFusion in ANZ -- 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.
