Sean, It is all catch 22, if there are no jobs the market suffers. As far as jobs goes I stated to you that the ASP, .Net, and java jobs are increasing in Australia and Coldfusion is not.
How can a developer support a technology that is the life blood income, when there is no work for them in this field of choosing? No jobs means moving to the flavour that has the work, ASP and .Net in Australia is increasing so people learn this and nothing else. I strongly love Coldfusion and its ease of use, but I and other developers need to survive and put food on the table, coldfusion is not enabling us developers to really do this because the work is not there:-) -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sean Corfield Sent: Saturday, 20 November 2004 5:52 PM To: CFAussie Mailing List Subject: [cfaussie] RE: Macromedia gives up on the server market in Australia and walks away. I was going to stay out of this but having been invoked by name... On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 09:56:26 +1100, Andrew Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sean argued that the sales of Coldfusion are stronger than ever, however > if that is the case then why is there so few jobs? My argument was that jobs are down in every technology. > I argued that if there are no jobs then there is no demand for the > technology, no jobs people will not want to learn it and learn what the > market is strong in. Why is PHP so strong? Because the community, the developers, promote it (there is no company promoting it). Why is Java so strong? Because the community, the developers, promote it (Sun has no money to promote it). Why is ASP.NET so strong (actually it isn't really if you look at the numbers)? Because Microsoft has billions of dollars and gives product away free left, right and center to promote their wares. Macromedia doesn't have the cash to run Superbowl commercials for ColdFusion. The strength of ColdFusion is you folks. Instead of complaining that Macromedia doesn't do enough to protect your jobs, you ought to be out there promoting CF as the best way to solve problems. You should be winning projects because you can do the job more efficiently than the PHP and ASP.NET folks. You've heard from Mark that CF sales are stronger than ever and, overall, Macromedia is stronger than ever. The sky is not falling. I always feel a bit sad when I see someone in the CF community sticking the knife in like this. We're generally very supportive and proud of our technologies here... and rightly so, ColdFusion is awesome. It lets us get great things done faster. I've programmed in dozens of languages over the years and CF is the most fun I've ever had - and the most productive thing I've ever encountered. Damn, I'm out there singing its praises! Why aren't you? -- --- You are currently subscribed to cfaussie as: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aussie Macromedia Developers: http://lists.daemon.com.au/
