>... If you > don't want to work for someone else why not get together with some other > contractors and start a company selling business solutions, that just > happens to use CF.
Extremely good point. The most important thing for any developer/s is to find the right resource to market their solution. I have seen time and again brilliant software fall by the wayside yet other crap prosper, simply due to marketing. Web based technology is here to stay for quite a while longer and I'm quite happy I write web based applications and not client / server app's. With CF7, sourceless development and deployable .WAR packages choice of technology becomes a moot point (Tomcat is free after all). Approach a client and tell them you can write a J2EE app faster and cheaper then any java code monkeys, which can deploy on any J2EE server - no need to even mention coldfusion (notice i spelt it correctly this time ... woohoo). I'd say the future of CF is extremely bright. I'm drooling over sourceless development .... Macromedia has invested quite a lot of resources in the most cost effective way - enhancing coldfusion itself. With CF7, server sales and marketing will really be a non issue. Macromedia to an extent is shooting itself in the foot with the next release. Clients will deploy coldfusion built applications on their J2EE platform/s with packaged WAR files that include the CF runtime. In essence no need for a cf server at all at the client site. Soon the time will have finally arrived when CF developers can compete with packaged software on an enterprise level. To me that is extremely exciting. I applaud Macromedia for their approach, they are one of the very few software developers that actually listen to their developers. Think about it ... OS - Linux Webserver - Apache App server - Tomcat DB - MySQL running a CF coded J2EE app. with only the java bytecode on the server. Do we still need to discuss selling / marketing CF servers? Macromedia by their approach have guaranteed CF development will grow regardless of server sales. But that is just my opinion. (Sorry about the long email ... but I really believe CF development will only increase with the release of cf7) --- 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/
