Once again, a journalist shows her ignorance by publicly declaring a heavily used, constantly updated and fully supported web language, dead. That’s right folks, time to start taking those Java training classes again, because all those thousands of ColdFusion applications being created every day are simply ignoring the fact that they are using a dead tool.
Take your blinders off, heed the voice of the Wise and All-Knowing Mary Brandel, and throw your Coldfusion Application Development books in the trash.
Seriously though, as has been discussed many times before, we all (including Adobe) need to be constantly acting as Ambassadors of ColdFusion when we go to user group meetings, local geek gatherings, or talking with people in our own companies. Only then will ColdFusion Ignorance be obliterated.
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3 Responses for "Talking Head Officially Declares ColdFusion Dead"
I work in the Health system in Sydney Australia, and I can tell you that in NSW, Health have officialy stopped using CF for new projects.
Why?
Because they did a deal with the devil (M$) and are now an MS shop.
Coldfusion is dead here – and I am re-training in .NET :-(
Considering every major telco uses it, every university here uses it, even Microsoft uses it!
Seek doesn’t believe that Coldfusion is dead in Australia?
http://www.seek.com.au/jobsearch/index.ascx?DateRange=31&Keywords=coldfusion&searchfrom=quick
I think it depends where you are. I spent 7 years in London UK as a CF developer, married a Canadian, moved to Calgary and almost got laughed out of job interviews.
Good thing I knew a think about Flash too, I went into a job interview to be a web developer, came out as a Flash developer!? I haven’t touched CF in about 18 months… can hardly remember it now!
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