I contract at NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) a large number of programs here are written in ColdFusion. I also know that the State Dept, National Institutes of Health, Congress and the Senate uses ColdFusion.
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 2:20 PM, Wil Genovese <jugg...@trunkful.com> wrote: > > I recently interviewed for a contract job with the Human Development > Reports division of the United Nations. They are using ColdFusion. The > front end is HTML, but they use AJAX to hit ColdFusion servers to populate > content and data. Government at many levels uses ColdFusion. (Yes, I know, > citing that Government does it that way is usually not a good thing, but > ColdFusion makes programers for the Government more efficient.) I know that > many colleges and Universities are using ColdFusion. > > A major portion of the Real Estate industry runs on ColdFusion. One of the > largest MLS search engine providers is 100% ColdFusion. Literally serving up > millions of requests per day from 4 servers. Literally thousands of broker > and agent websites rely on this ColdFusion service for their businesses. > > ColdFusion is easy to learn > ColdFusion allows you to rapidly build complex applications > ColdFusion can scale, does scale and has scaled to meet your traffic needs > ColdFusion allows you to be flexible. Meaning you can have a pure html/ajax > front end served by ColdFusion, or a Flex front end, or mobile app. All > powered by the same ColdFusion backend. > > ColdFusion provides your application with Rapid Flexible Power! > > > > Wil Genovese > Sr. Web Application Developer/ > Systems Administrator > > Wil Genovese Consulting > 651-894-4238 > wilg...@trunkful.com > www.trunkful.com > > On Aug 25, 2010, at 12:52 PM, Peter Boughton wrote: > > > > >> To respond to an IT director who thinks ColdFusion is dated and not in > much > >> use anymore... > > > > Well if he's determined, he'll just return with how many sites run on PHP > or .NET or whatever. > > > > Numbers don't help for CF - what you need to demonstrate is how active > and passionate the community is. > > > > A recent post by Terry Ryan might help there: > > http://www.terrenceryan.com/blog/post.cfm/dear-coldfusion-denier > > > > One specific point Terry makes: > >> check out the list of ColdFusion conferences. > >> A third of them are new conferences and have > >> popped up over the past 3 years. > > > > > > He's got another posting linked from that one, which has this "Cost of > Ownership" image: > > http://www.terrenceryan.com/blog/assets/content/toc.png > > > > Basically showing that CF requires less training, less dev time and less > maintenance. > > > > > > I think that sort of thing should be more useful than numbers. > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:336540 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
