Basically there are so few COBOL guys that you have to pay them a fortune to hire them. Same thing is happening to cf On 9 Sep 2015 8:37 am, "Samaris" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi > > Thanks for your reply > > Can you clarify your very last comment re becoming the new cobol developer > guys ??? > > I am working part time in a company who's main system is written in cobol > would love to work on the system to improve it however I have no cobol > experience and they would only seek experienced cobol developers grrrr > > I have good cd skills and have solo built system from the ground up that > processes over 1.5mill in payments per month. But finding work where I can > automate existing manual processes for companies by building admin apps for > them is like finding a needle in a hay stack. My site is www.Samaris.net > > Claude Raiola > SAMARIS Software > www.SAMARIS.net > 1300 255 990 > > On 9 Sep 2015, at 8:25 am, Christophe Albrech < > [email protected]> wrote: > > For sure man. People have been defending cf for years saying that nope, it > is not going anywhere, but now even the most prolific bloggers in the cf > community have all but jumped ship (not a stab at them, by the way). There > will be a CF12, maybe a CF13, but I'd say that's about it. There are still > jobs out there, though. Porting a big-enough app to a different language is > neither easy nor cheap, and some company can't be bothered or don't have > the forethought to do it in the first place. We're becoming the new cobol > developers, guys. Yay. > > On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 6:56 PM, Samaris <[email protected]> wrote: > >> It's all sad news especially for programmers like myself who I my have cf >> coding skills seeking work >> >> Claude Raiola >> SAMARIS Software >> www.SAMARIS.net >> 1300 255 990 >> >> On 8 Sep 2015, at 6:36 pm, Andrew Scott <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Adobe in my opinion have no clue about the product, serious bugs can take >> them years to even fix and even if they do, there is no guarantee that they >> will be released for current supported versions. Most times, they get >> released with the next version only. >> >> I raised a concurrency issue with ColdFusion 10, that is really a serious >> issue with the Application scope and it took Adobe 3-4 years to actually >> fix it. Nobody can wait that length of time while trying to get work done. >> >> Most places still using ColdFusion are 3 or more versions behind the >> current version, which is obviously a cost factor in upgrading. >> >> I mean Windows 10 has been stable for a very long time, Adobe had the >> chance to make sure they released connectors that would work on Windows 10 >> and yet, to this date I haven't seen any updates for it. They only have >> themselves to blame. >> >> >> Regards, >> Andrew Scott >> >> >> On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 6:20 PM, Samaris <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Thanks >>> >>> Claude Raiola >>> SAMARIS Software >>> www.SAMARIS.net >>> 1300 255 990 >>> >>> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "cfaussie" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cfaussie. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "cfaussie" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cfaussie. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "cfaussie" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cfaussie. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "cfaussie" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cfaussie. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "cfaussie" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cfaussie. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
