they also said that by 2005 there will be a huge shortage of IT personnel and salaries will be sky high...
To be honest with you, I can't see any of their analysis being very accurate and in some instances are even bias. Unfortunately they are read (and trusted) by senior executives that don't necessary understand technology and buy based on buzz words. It's like the joke where a reporter asked the weather man then what percentage of their prognosis are accurate. He said 40%. The reporter asked: why then you don't give it the other way :) All jokes aside, I think MM is doing a rather lousy job in marketing CF. I think way more companies will use CF if they actually understand the power and flexibility of it Victor On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 00:02:41 +0800, James Holmes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here is the exact wording of various parts of the September 2002 paper, > "Application Development Skill and Technology Trends": > > "Gartner's analysis indicates that the use of JavaScript and VBScript will > grow by 2 percent to 3 percent a year through 2006. During the same period, > the use of Perl will be declining by the same 2 percent to 3 percent; and > the use of ColdFusion will decline 10 percent a year. > > The growth of client-side scripts (i.e., JavaScript and VBScript) relates to > the fact that de facto standard technologies - Java or Microsoft - cannot > offer a competing technology for graphical user interface (GUI) development. > On the server side, both Java and Microsoft are offering powerful JSP and > ASP technologies. The latter will cause a decline in the current popularity > of Perl and ColdFusion." > > "As a final word, Gartner offers IT executives and managers the following > recommendations: > .... > Align AD technology and tool strategy with Microsoft or Java - or both. The > rest have become niche areas." > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Dave Carabetta [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, 25 February 2005 11:33 > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: CFMX Development Speed > > On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 23:19:42 +0800, James Holmes > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Tha last thing I read from Gartner told business managers to migrate > > away from CF, Python etc to J2EE or .NET as the others were "niche > products." > > > > Perhaps that's a misinterpreted distillation of what they really said? > If they really said that verbatim or something close, it just goes to show > the analyst's ignorance. Based on the above, they essentially said "Migrate > away from languages and move to platforms." CF is built *on top of* J2EE > standards, and .NET is just a platform upon which several languages can be > used to build applications, so it seems like they're suggesting to move from > apples to oranges. > > Regards, > Dave. > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Logware (www.logware.us): a new and convenient web-based time tracking application. Start tracking and documenting hours spent on a project or with a client with Logware today. Try it for free with a 15 day trial account. http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=67 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:196572 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
