I am farely new to CF. I have been working with ASP, PHP and Java before hand and like a lot of what I find in CF.
I would like to implement CF within a company I work for but there is resistance. It is not resisitance against the technology, which I have been able to demonstrate will save development time/money + tie up with existing frameworks, but is through the worry that there are not enough developers to supply the ongoing requirements of the business. So my question is: Will there be more developers coming into the community? How? When???! Or should I start thinking about the .NET framework instead - which may well require more training than ColdFusion does anyway? Sam Westlake -----Original Message----- From: stephen RAdams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 14 April 2004 10:33 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ cf-dev ] The state of ColdFusion in the UK I remember, when I started, we had people from Allaire visiting us, talking about CF, where it was going, what's new, now I don't see that as much. And your right those comparisons with other products have disappeared too. If we, as CF developers, are supposed to work more closely with Java, as CFMX is built on J2EE (which I'm all for). Why aren't Macromedia trying to use the status of Java in this country to sell CF with. Java and CF work so well together, we should be trying to get the Java community in the UK to see what CF can do and how it is an important tool. Stephen Adams Web Developer/Information Sharing Community Partnerships 0208 356 3042 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 14 April 2004 10:34 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ cf-dev ] The state of ColdFusion in the UK agreed. I think Allaire used to do a pretty good job of promoting CF, as it was pretty much their main product. Now it's just one of the many products that Macromedia offers, and is by no way the most important. You used to see good comparisons between CF, ASP, PHP etc, which I always thought did a good job of selling it to developers, but those seem to have disappeared. also they completely ballsed up the whole Tag Gallery, sorry, "Coldfusion Exchange" "stephen RAdams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 14/04/2004 10:04 Please respond to dev To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: Subject: [ cf-dev ] The state of ColdFusion in the UK What do people think of the state of ColdFusion in the UK? I personally think that it's a bit poorly supported and promoted by Macromedia. I mean we have a very few user groups (which I am not knocking), but I think Macromedia could do more to promote ColdFusion as a product to both developers (by supporting further the User Groups) and to organisations so that the market for CF is bigger in the UK. Who's using CF in the UK, where is it going, do Macromedia have a plan how to support and promote in the UK. It would be nice to know what they are doing so we as developers could see how we could help. What do other UK based developers think? How could we help better promote CF in the UK? Stephen Adams Web Developer/Information Sharing Community Partnerships -- These lists are syncronised with the CFDeveloper forum at http://forum.cfdeveloper.co.uk/ Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/dev%40lists.cfdeveloper.co.uk/ CFDeveloper Sponsors and contributors:- *Hosting and support provided by CFMXhosting.co.uk* :: *ActivePDF provided by activepdf.com* *Forums provided by fusetalk.com* :: *ProWorkFlow provided by proworkflow.com* *Tutorials provided by helmguru.com* :: *Lists hosted by gradwell.com* To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- These lists are syncronised with the CFDeveloper forum at http://forum.cfdeveloper.co.uk/ Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/dev%40lists.cfdeveloper.co.uk/ CFDeveloper Sponsors and contributors:- *Hosting and support provided by CFMXhosting.co.uk* :: *ActivePDF provided by activepdf.com* *Forums provided by fusetalk.com* :: *ProWorkFlow provided by proworkflow.com* *Tutorials provided by helmguru.com* :: *Lists hosted by gradwell.com* To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- These lists are syncronised with the CFDeveloper forum at http://forum.cfdeveloper.co.uk/ Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/dev%40lists.cfdeveloper.co.uk/ CFDeveloper Sponsors and contributors:- *Hosting and support provided by CFMXhosting.co.uk* :: *ActivePDF provided by activepdf.com* *Forums provided by fusetalk.com* :: *ProWorkFlow provided by proworkflow.com* *Tutorials provided by helmguru.com* :: *Lists hosted by gradwell.com* To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
