Plus, many sites don't even have a way to show that ColdFusion (or any other language) is being used.
Politico for example is a HUGE ColdFusion powered site that generates dynamic content with CF and builds HTML files. The United Nations websites does the same with ColdFusion. There are a ton of Government sites using ColdFusion - Does Alexa even rank Government sites? Google this filetype:cfm But this still only finds actual .cfm files and not any site that uses SES URL's. Wil Genovese Sr. Web Application Developer/ Systems Administrator CF Webtools www.cfwebtools.com wilg...@trunkful.com www.trunkful.com On Dec 14, 2011, at 10:39 AM, Justin Scott wrote: > >> Very disappointing statistics for ColdFusion market penetration. >> http://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/programming_language/all > > I'm actually surprised it's as high as it is given their methodology. > They claim to look at the top one million (or thereabouts) websites as > ranked by Alexa. These are going to be popular, public, relatively > high-traffic sites which is not ColdFusion's bread and butter. > > ColdFusion has a huge market "behind the firewall" in corporate and > government intranets and other places that these kinds of surveys > can't report on. PHP will usually dominate these kinds of surveys > because of popular open source tools that can be deployed by less > technical users, such as forums, content management systems, and > blogging tools such as WordPress. Contrary to reports like this, > ColdFusion is alive and well in the enterprise. It's less popular for > public websites than other languages, but that doesn't concern me in > the least. > > > -Justin Scott > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:349111 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
