I can't speak officially for my organization, but we were planning on running it on our Oracle server. I'll pass your request for feedback along to our IT Director.
Kevin Graeme > -----Original Message----- > From: Jeff Whatcott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2002 7:00 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: RE: How Good is the Job Market for ColdFusion? > > > Sorry you feel that way, Trey. We hope you'll reconsider. IBM > is now selling and supporting ColdFusion MX worldwide. We think > the momentum is building in the right direction. > > All: Are there others out there who feel a huge need to run CFMX > on Oracle? If so, we would love to hear about it, along with an > indication of how many CPUs you would purchase if it were > supported. We're not in a position to make any promises about > future Oracle support, but we're always interested in hearing > what customers want AND are willing to pay for. > > Regards, > > Jeff Whatcott > Sr. Director, Macromedia > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -----Original Message----- > From: Trey Rouse [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2002 1:46 PM > To: CF-Talk > 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 This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting.
