oh, and to add
http://www.forta.com/blog/index.cfm/2007/5/30/Gartner-Adobe-Appreciates-ColdFusion
DK
On 6/25/07, Douglas Knudsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Forta's attacked this one already
http://www.forta.com/blog/index.cfm/2007/5/25/Todays-Irresponsible-Journalism-Award-Goes-To-Mary-Brandel
DK
On 6/25/07, John Mason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Not every technology is on the top 10 "up and coming" technologies
> either.
> Things come and go. I have a prediction. Given the development that
> Adobe
> and New Atlanta are doing to CF. And if Adobe actually throws some real
> marketing dollars behind the it. I bet in the next 3-5 years it will be
> a
> "hot" technology again.
>
> The person they were using as a source for the article was David Foote
> ( http://www.footepartners.com/) who appears to be a recruiter. Now
> nothing
> against recruiters but in terms of technology and trends. Their eye
> sight is
> usually very short. It really has to be, they have to fit the market as
> it
> is now. Not how it will be down the road.
>
> As an example, they have non-IP networks listed as number 2 which on the
> face of it sounds reasonable since you don't see many of them anymore.
> But
> several companies are re-discovering nice things about non-IP networks
> (they
> can be faster and more secure than IP). The TCP/IP protocol is very big
> and
> cumbersome at times. As an example is "ATA over Ethernet" or AoE. This
> is
> bleeding edge, experimental stuff right now, but give it time you may
> see a
> lot of it down the road.
>
> John
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>
>
>
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>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alex Pilson
> Sent: Monday, June 25, 2007 8:36 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: RE: [ACFUG Discuss] shocking...
>
> At 8:24 PM -0400 6/25/07, John Mason wrote:
> >Just another wacky article for the folks at ComputerWorld. Some
> >technologies are clearly dead. Like OS/2 which IBM no longer supports.
> >CF is no where near death.
> >
> >ColdFusion has 4 different groups developing the language: Adobe, New
> >Atlanta, Railo, and Smith Project. These groups actively support and
> >developed the language are a very active community. Is the CF world
> >smaller than say Java or .Net? Sure but that doesn't mean it's dead or
> >even near death. Just that the companies that develop it haven't been
> >very good on the PR front. ComputerWorld mention later all the people
> >calling them up supporting CF after that article came out which
> >surprised them. Bare in mind, these lists aren't very scientific.
> >
> >It just shows that top 10 lists are usually silly and shouldn't be
> >taken that seriously.
>
> Yes, I agree to all of that above. I mean I code in Lasso and it has the
> same death threats and issues CF seems to have from time to time, but
> the
> community that keeps it going is going very strong. Of course there is
> no
> Adobe behind it, but I know the inside track and it is definitely not
> dying.
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