It's pretty plain and simple, the new generation just doesn't grow up with Coldfusion because there are many other open-source alternatives out there which are free, generate more hype and have more hosting options. So the 14 year olds learn PHP, Ruby or Python and Java. That's completely understandable, you can't change this it's called reality.
Sorry if I may sound bitter at Adobe but the people who are interested in Adobe are for the most part from the designer world not the developer community and as such the association of Coldfusion with Adobe is not good for Coldfusion. I also don't agree with the notion that Open BlueDragon or Railo wouldn't be there without Adobe, they actually predate the Adobe takeover. Railo started in 2002, Bluedragon in 2001. I also doubt that the Adobe's takeover substantially grew the Coldfusion server share, on the contrary many companies were switching from Coldfusion to other alternatives including the company I worked for at the time, when Macromedia was bought by Adobe licenses at our place were not renewed. -- tag/function ref: http://www.openbluedragon.org/manual/ mailing list - http://groups.google.com/group/openbd?hl=en Get to Texas in Feb for OpenCFSummit http://www.opencfsummit.org/
