I've seen CF end up on lists like this in the past but I believe CF is more in demand now. CF skills alone is likely not enough to be highly marketable but CF combined with Java, SQL, and some solid business analytical or project management skills should make anyone highly competitive I would think.
That said, I really am baffled why some well known (like Global Knowledge) names common in IT circles continue to list CF as a diminishing skill set. What do you all think? *5. ColdFusion: *ColdFusion users rave that this Web programming language is easy to use and quick to jump into, but as many other independent software tools have experienced, it's hard to compete with products backed by expensive marketing campaigns from Microsoft and others. The language was originally released in 1995 by Allaire, which was acquired by Macromedia (which itself was purchased by Adobe). Today, it superseded by Microsoft .Net, Java, PHP and the language of the moment: open source Ruby on Rails. A quick search of the Indeed.com job aggregator site returned 11,045 jobs seeking PHP skills compared to 2,027 CF jobs. Even Ruby on Rails, which is a much newer technology receiving a major boost when Apple packaged it with OS X v10.5 in 2007, returned 1,550 jobs openings on Indeed.com.
