I would agree with Paul here. Financially, CF is extremely lucrative in
the UK with rates around 30% higher than ASP.
The reasons are quite simply that ASP is more popular, but anybody that
used to do VB now does ASP, so the market may be bigger, but so is the
recruitment base. This has made ASP consultants cheaper to acquire.
This is also a reason why people use ASP. Europe has been very MS
orientated. If you are already developing using Visual Studio, you
business might as well continue down that development path.
What it doesn't recognise is that CF is inherently faster to develop for
(so I have found) and provides a lot of functionality that you have to
write/purchase yourself for ASP.
Then again, try persuading business people to shell out for Spectra. Not
easy...they cannot see the application development benefits.
One thing though...there is a severe lack of GOOD CF developers in the UK.
It's amazing the number of people that attempt to blag it. If I interview,
I use a simple questionaire that I walk through with the
potential...sometimes it really is quite embarrassing.
Adam
-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Johnston [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, January 08, 2001 10:00 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: Slightly OT: CF in Europe
Lets put it this way.
I have been doing web development work since coming out of the University
of
Bath (for all you Americans, it's an old Roman City in England that has
Roman Bath's in it hence the name) not too many years ago.
Since then I have done HTML then Perl, then CF. As far as I'm concerned
the
lack of penetration in CF means that there are not too many developers out
there (although this is increasing). The jobs are there (if you look in
the
right places and are good enough) but such is the perceived value of ASP in
the development market that you would find it easier to get an ASP job (and
for that matter a PHP job if you have the skills). However the financial
implications of this here are huge!
Financially it's good to be a CF programmer in the UK - especially a good
one. It's even better to be a Spectra programmer (doesn't really matter
how
good yet as long as you've done the course or have experience). Don't be
put off that CF hasn't penetrated the market yet. I firmly believe that it
could (no guarantees), but the worst thing that could happen is that the CF
programmers move away from CF!
Paul
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