> > *RE: Kay;s comment - compete with .NET (which has MS behind it, with far > more resources than Adobe) * >
Actually a lot of the compete concern doesn't derive from Microsoft itself, your actual real competitors are the partners / customers of .NET technology. Microsoft market .NET in a plethora of ways, we specifically don't actively compete with Coldfusion all that much. In that in the end, folks here also are customers of ours whom buy SQL, Windows Servers etc and I state this as it's easy to demonise us as the bad guys, when in fact we have investment in the success and failures of Coldfusion (both obviously). We've also recently via Expression Web opened our tool(s) offering to support PHP, so in the end it's not a clear cut and dry - us or them, mentality. Like I stated, you have [EMAIL PROTECTED] and the boys from the US at WebDU, put together your draft plan on how to change the world, one CF step at a time and approach them. Tim is by far the most approachable Adobe Staffer I know, and if you calmly state your case(s) on how you could change the "perception of community decomposition" with an action plan, I'd wager he'd look into ways of supporting it. I wouldn't recommend doing this alone, you will fail. Scott. On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 5:30 PM, Kay Smoljak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 3:23 PM, Ricardo Russon > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > But as a developer, why is it my job to promote coldfusion? > > Short answer: it's not. > > Long answer: many people feel that if ColdFusion were more popular and > widespread, they'd have better job security/job prospects etc. We like > coding in ColdFusion so we would like this to happen. ColdFusion's > success is our success. So to help ColdFusion compete with .NET (which > has MS behind it, with far more resources than Adobe) and PHP/Ruby > (which have large proactive open source communities behind them), many > people in the CF community feel they that by helping Adobe, we are > helping ourselves. > > -- > Kay Smoljak > business: www.cleverstarfish.com > coldfusion: kay.smoljak.com > personal: goatlady.wordpress.com | heapsbad.com > > > > -- Regards, Scott Barnes http://www.mossyblog.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "cfaussie" group. To post to this group, send email to cfaussie@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cfaussie?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
