Re: US Government moving to Drupal?

2011-01-13 Thread Sean Corfield
On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 4:10 PM, Gerald Guido wrote: > Pls let us know what you find out if it is not included on this thread, if > at all possible. I've had a couple of private emails containing information I'm not allowed to share because, well, they probably shouldn't have shared it with me.

Re: US Government moving to Drupal?

2011-01-13 Thread Gerald Guido
>> I'm genuinely interested in hearing from folks with insight into government agency IT departments As am I. >>and so far the feedback has been very positive (which is good). Pls let us know what you find out if it is not included on this thread, if at all possible. Thank you sir, G! On Th

Re: US Government moving to Drupal?

2011-01-13 Thread Sean Corfield
On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 12:19 PM, Gerald Guido wrote: > Is this really that big of a deal? Or is that what you are trying to find > out? I'm genuinely interested in hearing from folks with insight into government agency IT departments and so far the feedback has been very positive (which is good

Re: US Government moving to Drupal?

2011-01-13 Thread Dave Watts
> Can you give some examples of CMS solutions that are losing support? I don't know if I can get into specifics, but basically everything that's not on that list is losing support. >> CF has been in use by the federal government practically as long as >> it's existed - we were working on governm

Re: US Government moving to Drupal?

2011-01-13 Thread Gerald Guido
Is this really that big of a deal? Or is that what you are trying to find out? According to the Adobe folks that sales were strong for CF 8 and that the market share and/or numbers of developers is growing. Are we just tormenting ourselves with another round of "CFID" related FUD? thanx G! On We

Re: US Government moving to Drupal?

2011-01-13 Thread John Allen
At a big Gov agency I am fighting the good fight to implement Mura but the superiors wana spend money on a CMS so they are looking at some CF COTS products. It's a bummer cause I really LOVE Mura. That said the agency is FOR SURE keeping ACF for its public facing stuff. On the inside they are mix

Re: US Government moving to Drupal?

2011-01-13 Thread Matthew Williams
I've been working with .GOV as a shared CF server admin since the beginning of '06 for EPA, and the impression I've always been given is that our branch is only interested in enterprise solutions. Even the FOSS apps that are being run are the Enterprise variants (Solaris, RHEL, etc). If ther

Re: US Government moving to Drupal?

2011-01-12 Thread Sean Corfield
On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 9:27 PM, Dave Watts wrote: > Actually, it's a bit more complicated than that. They're not just > "moving to Drupal" - they're limiting the vendors who can provide > solutions for websites hosted by the US Senate Sergeant-at-Arms Interesting. When I saw the list of consult

Re: US Government moving to Drupal?

2011-01-12 Thread Dave Watts
> They reference the Washington Post article about the House migrating > 520 websites from "a mix of proprietary and open-source content > management platforms" to Drupal. Actually, it's a bit more complicated than that. They're not just "moving to Drupal" - they're limiting the vendors who can p

Re: US Government moving to Drupal?

2011-01-12 Thread Kelly Matthews
We started using CF while I was working at HUD in 1997. On 1/12/2011 8:53 PM, Sean Corfield wrote: > The government has always been a pretty strong area for ColdFusion > (does someone here know how long ColdFusion has been so deeply > embedded in government? I get the impression it long predates

Re: US Government moving to Drupal?

2011-01-12 Thread Geoff Bowers
On 13 January 2011 12:53, Sean Corfield wrote: > I don't want to start one of those interminable "CF is dying" threads > but I am curious as to how many people had seen these stories and what > they thought in the context of the US government following many other > world governments in a push for

Re: US Government moving to Drupal?

2011-01-12 Thread david.mcg...@gmail.com
They should just switch to Railo and be instantly FOSS with CFML  :) FTR,  I still love farcry as a CMS I find it's code base very nice to work with and extend. -- Sent from my Palm Pre On Jan 12, 2011 8:54 PM, Sean Corfield wrote: I saw Blue River (the Mura folks

US Government moving to Drupal?

2011-01-12 Thread Sean Corfield
I saw Blue River (the Mura folks) tweet this today: http://twitter.com/#!/brinteractive/statuses/25246946570534912 They reference the Washington Post article about the House migrating 520 websites from "a mix of proprietary and open-source content management platforms" to Drupal. The other day,