I saw Blue River (the Mura folks) tweet this today: http://twitter.com/#!/brinteractive/statuses/25246946570534912
They reference the Washington Post article about the House migrating 520 websites from "a mix of proprietary and open-source content management platforms" to Drupal. The other day, I saw a job post on a CFUG list looking for a Java architect with CF experience to lead a migration from ColdFusion to Java for a federal agency in the Bay Area, California. I don't want to start one of those interminable "CF is dying" threads but I am curious as to how many people had seen these stories and what they thought in the context of the US government following many other world governments in a push for FOSS (Free Open Source Software) solutions? I'm also curious about how Drupal and, say, Mura or FarCry compare since I'm not familiar enough with all of them to make such a comparison. The government has always been a pretty strong area for ColdFusion (does someone here know how long ColdFusion has been so deeply embedded in government? I get the impression it long predates my exposure to ColdFusion - 2001). At CFUnited in 2009, a government IT guy approached me and told me his department had been mandated to move to FOSS and he was researching a proposal to cross-train his team in PHP and rewrite all their CFML applications. How many folks here work within the government and can comment on this sort of thing? -- 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/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:340718 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
