By analysts' estimates though, that were shown at cf.Objective() there
are close to 800,000 CF developers. This represents a number more
than doubled since CF 6 was released. I think it's safe to say it's
not a dying skill.
On May 18, 2009, at 12:45 PM, Greg McTure wrote:
I've seen CF end up on lists like this in the past but I believe CF
is more in demand now. CF skills alone is likely not enough to be
highly marketable but CF combined with Java, SQL, and some solid
business analytical or project management skills should make anyone
highly competitive I would think.
That said, I really am baffled why some well known (like Global
Knowledge) names common in IT circles continue to list CF as a
diminishing skill set. What do you all think?
5. ColdFusion: ColdFusion users rave that this Web programming
language is easy to use and quick to jump into, but as many other
independent software tools have experienced, it's hard to compete
with products backed by expensive marketing campaigns from Microsoft
and others. The language was originally released in 1995 by Allaire,
which was acquired by Macromedia (which itself was purchased by
Adobe). Today, it superseded by Microsoft .Net, Java, PHP and the
language of the moment: open source Ruby on Rails. A quick search of
the Indeed.com job aggregator site returned 11,045 jobs seeking PHP
skills compared to 2,027 CF jobs. Even Ruby on Rails, which is a
much newer technology receiving a major boost when Apple packaged it
with OS X v10.5 in 2007, returned 1,550 jobs openings on Indeed.com.
