Comments on: Another ColdFusion Death

By: Brian Begurky

Brian Begurky — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 02:08:00 +0000

Coldfusion is NOT – I repaet Noth! Dead.

Colfusion is the best language when compared to all the other alteritives.

For example just time how long it take to write a blog software on CFML instead of PHP. PHP is much worse at that. PHP is falling behind now and I predicat PHP will loose the race in 2 years.

I’ts just like java but more prodtive becase you get a better arcitecture in the product. Adobe is a big company and php is not.

no, sir you are wrong! Coldfusion is NOT DEAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

yours sincerely,

Brian B.

By: Rob

Rob — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 13:08:01 +0000

I believe Adobe’s figures. I bet there are thousands of Indian, Chinese and other non native English speaking developers using Coldfusion to develop that maybe don’t feel confident enough to post in English forums. Think about it… Coldfusion is a very good product that’s getting better with every update AND Adobe own it as well as a load of other very cool web development tools. Why shouldn’t it gain momentum?

By: Steve Brownlee

Steve Brownlee — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 15:52:48 +0000

Carey, I’m certainly not asserting that ColdFusion as a platform is dead. I’m not that ignorant. I was expressing my dismay over a few people that I know moving away from it.

By: Carey Duryea

Carey Duryea — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 23:56:06 +0000

I honestly don’t know how many articles i’ve read about coldfusion is dead? type of thing. i’ve seen some cases where people were surely using it to generate traffic. i Definitly consider myself fascinated with CF. My advice about getting coldfusion development help is that the world has become a very very small place. i through my eclipse interface assign tasks to several coldfusion developers on the opposite side of the world.

By: Chris walker

Chris walker — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 02:03:52 +0000

Steve if its not too late to pull it out we can save it here in Pittsburgh. I have 4 developers. You and I go way back to the old CFUG meetings back in the Strip District when free pizza and BEER was the draw to the meetings.

By: Hal Helms Officially Leaves Coldfusion | DevWebPro

Hal Helms Officially Leaves Coldfusion | DevWebPro — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:16:39 +0000

[...] close by pointing out another mournful blog post about CFML which tells the story of a web site being redeveloped in PHP because of a lack of available CFML [...]

By: Steve Brownlee

Steve Brownlee — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 20:09:42 +0000

Heya Todd. MY sister actually spent over 3 months looking for a local ColdFusion candidate. I have no idea which avenues she used, but she said she didn’t get a single bite. With an existing investment in it, she wanted to continue with ColdFusion, but chose PHP because she easily found resources that would do the work.

Could she have searched harder? Possibly. However, since I don’t know what process she used, I can’t comment either way.

The project is an overhaul of their public-facing website. It isn’t a CMS app or anything she could get out of the box. I wrote a custom application underlying the website that allows her to import XML files, images, and plain text docs, and then convert them into a standard template for the product catalog.

There’s other functionality as well, but she definitely couldn’t find a quick replacement by trolling the open source software marketplace.

By: Todd Rafferty

Todd Rafferty — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 19:43:15 +0000

Steve, I’m still in Pittsburgh – still working for the same company I have been. There is still some CFML left in Pittsburgh. I went to the CFUG this past year, there was 8-10 people. When Adam Lehman came through, the number shot up (cuz he’s a rockstar).

I’m not sure I’d count your family business as a “death” – Were they looking for free software to begin with? Is there anything software package close to what you built in CFML?

With 2 open source CFML engines on the market, in addition to the new CF9, I think you’re going to start seeing some additional growth.

By: Making the Complicated Straightforward » Blog Archive » Hal Helms Officially Leaves Coldfusion - ColdFusionProNews.com

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 13:33:27 +0000

[...] close by pointing out another mournful blog post about CFML which tells the story of a web site being redeveloped in PHP because of a lack of available CFML [...]

By: walt

walt — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:03:21 +0000

Too little, too late that Adobe’s expanding CFscript?