Just the usual blabbering ;-) and yes I have.....'nuff said...
Ta
-----Original Message-----
From: Matt Horn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 15 April 2004 10:04
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [ cf-dev ] The state of ColdFusion in the UK
right
Since Neil is not on the chat list Iam going to burn him here
please ignore this if you are not neil
Hi Neil
have you been here?
do you have any idea what you are talking about or as usual just blabbering
on aimlessly?
K thanks
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 10:46 AM
Subject: RE: [ cf-dev ] The state of ColdFusion in the UK
> Well it is a Third World Country...... They have barely heard of fire and
> electricity, never mind the Wheel.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matt Horn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: 15 April 2004 08:59
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [ cf-dev ] The state of ColdFusion in the UK
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> I agree
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> I have moved back to South Africa and have like 7 years CF experience but
> not many people here have heard of Coldfusion but every designer knows
about
> Flash
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "stephen RAdams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 9:47 AM
> Subject: RE: [ cf-dev ] The state of ColdFusion in the UK
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> Hi Lucas,
>
> Thanks for getting back to us, (but on your holiday, wow). Anyway I
> think, from my perspective what I'd like to see in the UK is the name of
> ColdFusion being promoted better. If you go to a large organisation like
> BT and you say "we can build a site for you in half the time, but using
> ColdFusion instead of ASP or Java" would they know what ColdFusion is
> and if they have heard of the name, would they know enough about CF to
> know what all the benefits of using CF over other products are.
>
> I do like the idea that Mark Woods said of having a site just dedicated
> to ColdFusion like www.asp.net. At the moment if you say that CF is by
> Macromedia, they would probably say "oh, don't they make Flash".
> Everyone has heard of Flash, why can't Macromedia make a name of CF as
> they have with Flash?
>
> If MM were willing to support a ColdFusion specific site I am sure that
> there would be developers out there willing to spend some of their free
> time developing the site.
>
> Stephen Adams
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lucas Sherwood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: 14 April 2004 18:25
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: [ cf-dev ] The state of ColdFusion in the UK
>
> Hey Stephen et al,
> So I am the MM guy here...
> But I am not really sure what you would like us to say. So these are my
> thoughts, not those of the company I work for.
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> CF represents MMs third largest product and we sink hundreds of hours
> speaking to User groups, speaking to developers and customers.
>
> There are many on this list that know that I am basicly at every MMUG
> and
> CFUG that I can get to (I am currently in SF on holiday, in a park and
> still
> reading this list - gotta love wireless)
>
> I am reminded of a phrase, we help those who help themselves.
> I traveled to the largest usergroup meeting that the northern usergroup
> had.
> It was 20 people. Not really compelling for MM to pay the train fair for
> that.
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> MM's partner team are more than happy to come to almost any end user
> meeting
> that you care to have (as long as you can show that there will be
> revenue)
> and help you pitch CF
>
> And as for the comment about CF evangelists, I guess that is what I
> am...
> That is what my card says anyway...
> L.
> --
> Lucas Sherwood
> Evangelist - Server Products
> Macromedia EMEA
> -----Original Message-----
> From: stephen RAdams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: 14 April 2004 12:16 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: [ cf-dev ] The state of ColdFusion in the UK
>
> OK, so far we sound as though we agreed, CF in the UK could be and
> should be better supported, but how can we make MM aware of this. No one
> from MM has replied to this list. Should we post of CF-talk list or in
> the Macromedia Forums. It would be nice to get an official response from
> someone in MM.
>
> Stephen Adams
> Web Developer/Information Sharing
> Community Partnerships
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Powell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: 14 April 2004 12:19
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Cc: Steve Powell
> Subject: RE: [ cf-dev ] The state of ColdFusion in the UK
>
> I've implemented ColdFusion systems at a number of fairly big names.
>
> Like others here I've encountered resistence because finding CF
> developers isn't straight forward (it isn't something our Project
> Managers have heard of) they also like to know that there are other
> companies out there using it, a kind of safety in numbers thing.
>
> I've often had to compile lists of comapnies that use it and also
> demonstrate that there are enough CF dvelopers available to cover their
> needs once we've left.
>
> I think the usage of CF is grossly under-reported. I've seen quite a few
> installations at places that you wouldn't immediately think of as well
> as knowing about a number of Intranet apps that aren't exactly visible.
>
> All of this would benefit from a higher profile and generally greater
> awareness.
>
> MM in the UK provide precious little support outside of CFUGUK and not
> that much for CFUKUG. MM UK have had a poor reputation for years, you
> should have tried getting support out of them for Director (their
> flagship product) 5 years ago.
>
> Almost everything gets referred to the US as the guys here are all sales
> and not much else.
>
> What the solution to this is though I have no idea.
>
> Steve
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