I've been using CF for a long time and will be using it until I retire, because I build things people use and they don't particularly care what the technology is behind those things they use.
HOWEVER, that is no excuse for Adobe being SO VERY SLACK at promoting their product, providing tutorials for new users to use to get to know CF, providing conferences, etc. Yes, CF *may* still be profitable for Adobe, but it won't take too many more years before that will change as people like myself decide to migrate to Blue Dragon and cut off yet one more customer from Adobe. Too many of those decisions and even hosts will decide CF is not worth providing. I like CF and hope to retire before I have to learn anything else. (I'd rather play softball with my extra time than learn PHP....) But, as long as Adobe keeps CF on the market, they should support it like it's the greatest thing since sliced bread. The only businesses I know that have a product on the market, yet don't market in every way and to the fullest extent possible, are those who don't understand marketing in today's media, or those who are just milking the cow without feeding it to get whatever money they can for the milk with no more investment in maintaining a healthy thriving cow. They're just willing to get what they can on their way out of the business and let the cow survive on its own as long as it can. I'm not sure, after a decade of watching Adobe, if they're just lazy, ignorant, or going out of business with CF. Any of the above scenarios fits their long-time approach to marketing CF. And I've never heard one rational defense of Adobe and its handling of CF that excuses Adobe lack of attention to CF, from documentation to marketing. (And understand, that I'm a freelancer, and my business success has never once depended on how well Adobe has marketed their product, so I'm like an outsider looking in at those dependent upon Adobe making a name for CF so those of you who work for others can get hired based on the reputation of CF, which ONLY Adobe can create...) Rick -----Original Message----- From: Paul Hastings [mailto:p...@sustainablegis.com] Sent: Monday, March 18, 2013 12:47 AM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: CF running out of steam On 3/18/2013 10:05 AM, Jenny Gavin-Wear wrote: > I take all of your points on board, but it is still frustrating to be trying > to sell a product that the manufacturer does not seem particularly > interested in selling itself - let alone the business model for the product > being wrong in the first place. at face value, kind of an absurd statement. what company in the business of selling stuff, isn't interested in selling stuff? i *know* the cf team is trying & cf is still profitable to adobe. but when its not they'll likely drop it & i don't find that very worrying. adobe has already "dropped" what i thought was a pretty good product (flex). but they dropped it in a responsible fashion (into apache's lap, where its ticking along quite nicely--the commit stream & people coming out of the woodwork to donate stuff to it makes me feel all warm & fuzzy). people have been bemoaning cf's demise for a decade & yet its still here. if its around for another decade w/adobe fine, if not, that's fine too. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:355068 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
