On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 10:46 AM, Robert Harrison <rob...@austin-williams.com> wrote: > To respond to an IT director who thinks ColdFusion is dated and not in much > use anymore...
Even tho' it just got a brand new updater for the latest release - which only came out recently and now incorporates the industry standard ORM, Hibernate? Even tho' Adobe just invested in a brand new Eclipse-based IDE dedicated to CFML? Even tho' there are now three feature-rich implementations of CFML (Adobe, OpenBD, Railo)? Even tho' Evans Data Corporation - an independent research company - estimates there are close to 800,000 CFML developers worldwide? Even tho' Gartner recently praised CFML as a technology to invest in? I hope you get my point. Number of sites isn't really a useful measure (since a large percentage of CFML sites are probably behind firewalls) but all those points above are valid. In some ways the recent security alert highlights just how widespread CFML usage is - if it were "not in much use anymore", no one would have made a fuss about the exploit! > It seems I keep having to make the 'Why ColdFusion' argument again and > again. Adobe is very good with the evangelical kit, but it focused on > converting developers. I think the evangelist kit has some pretty good stuff for managers - I don't think it's aimed at developers at all. We are talking about the same document, yes? http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/evangelism_kit/ Pages 4 and 5 in particular address use of CFML and important positive reviews. Page 6 covers the future roadmap (to dispel the 'dated' idea). -- Sean A Corfield -- (904) 302-SEAN Railo Technologies, Inc. -- http://getrailo.com/ An Architect's View -- http://corfield.org/ "If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive." -- Margaret Atwood ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:336557 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
