It's an economy and burnout thing... I mean how many people need software built? How many people are throwing hard cash at a software based business concept?
Not many. Couple that with the reduced budgets everyone is facing across the board and bingo! Hiring isn't what is in, firing is... The whole view that the web was where you had to be, is a has been idea... Now its trivilized greatly (after the cafe mocha brewer turned web dude turned 20something CEO phase)... The margins are razor thin in general and clients expect tons of functionality at little or no cost.. Companies with payrolls are feeling the lashings, even if they are selling box software... Retainers, once the staple of entitlement have evaporated and lots of people owe for development across the board... Times are tough and leaner... Better and different... At least now I can laugh that Mr. Know It All but Knows Nothing Web Dorks and the idiot business school wanks with their bullshit $800 chairs and stupid gimmicks are back at their mostly trivial jobs for mostly someone else... Paris Lundis Founder Areaindex, L.L.C. http://www.areaindex.com http://www.pubcrawler.com 412-292-3135 [finding the future in the past, passing the future in the present] [connecting people, places and things] -----Original Message----- From: "Trey Rouse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 12:45:38 -0500 Subject: RE: How Good is the Job Market for ColdFusion? > I have to agree with Casey on this one. There are practically no CF > postings in the Texas market. Dallas has by far the most of any > other > regional market. > > I'm no longer a developer and have moved up past the architect tear, > and > honestly, I here 5x as many stories of people ditching CF than > ramping > up. The enterprise penetration of MX has been weak. MM would blame > this > on the marketplace, but I'm not sold on this. > > We honestly are seriously considering dumping the product and > retraining > our CF team for native j2ee. MM's failure to support Oracles j2ee > server is killing them in the education and corporate marketplaces. > Too > many large schools and corporations have purchased 'site' licensure > of > oracle products that comes bundled with oracle's j2ee server. > Fiscally > we can not justify purchasing another party j2ee server just to > continue > using the CF toolset. We are moving forward with what we already own. > Talking with industry piers, we are by no means the only large shop > doing this. > > My advice, if you want to maintain your marketability, you better > ramp > up on other application server languages. > > Trey Rouse > Rice University > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Casey C Cook [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Saturday, October 12, 2002 9:54 AM > > To: CF-Talk > > Subject: RE: How Good is the Job Market for ColdFusion? > > > > Well, heres my 2 cents. When the economy was booming I noticed > about > a 1 > > to 5 ratio (roughly 100 CF 500 ASP) for coldfusion to ASP jobs on > > monster.com for the Dallas/Ft. Worth Texas Area, now that the > economy > is > > down I see a 1 to 12 ratio (roughly 10 CF 120 ASP) for coldfusion > to > ASP > > jobs for the Dallas/Ft. Worth Texas Area. I know this is a very > small > > sample, but if I was looking to stay in this area I would say CF > jobs > are > > becoming more scarce. > > > > Best of luck. > > Casey Cook > > > > > > > > "Angel > > Stewart" <gel To: CF-Talk <cf- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > @silkcotton.c cc: > > om> Subject: RE: How Good > is > the > > Job Market for ColdFusion? > > > > 10/12/02 > > 09:10 AM > > Please > > respond to > > cf-talk > > > > > > > > > > > > > > You should be asking how good is the job market for Web Development > in > > the US in general, > > rather than focusing on CF, and that might give you a better > answer. > > > > -Gel > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: siva girumala [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > > Hi All, > > > > How good is the job market for ColdFusion expertise? > > It seems the number of openings in ColdFusion are > > becoming less and less. > > > > Is it dying? I am sorry to even mention this. But i > > would like to know the future of ColdFusion..... > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/cf_talk FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm
