OpenID - Maybe Not As Cool As I Thought
This blog has been having some serious uptime problems, but with our move and starting our new jobs, I haven’t had time to look into the problem.
At completely random times the server would just spin out of control as if it was under a denial of service attack. I figured it was just someone’s [...]
Category: General, Web Apps
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 :-(
I don’t know why, but there seems to be a need every three or four months for someone in the press to print this kind of article about the death of ColdFusion.
Of course, every journalism class in the world teaches that part of good journalistic practice is to run stories wherein you don’t quote any actual sources, or talk to anyone that’s actually using the product, or anyone from the company responsible for the product.
For every anecdotal story about someone dumping CF in favor of PHP or .NET, I guarantee that you can find an anecdotal story of someone dumping PHP or .NET in favor of CF. The real story - which I’ll bet anything ComputerWorld will not have the integrity to print a follow-up on - will come in the third quarter this year, when Adobe starts shipping CF8. If this story has any truth at all, then it will be a huge flop, possibly endangering Adobe’s bottom line. And you know what? I absolutely guarantee that Adobe knows one hell of a lot more about the true stats of the usage of ColdFusion than any moron who is writing for a technology paper because he couldn’t get a real job in technology, and I guarantee that they would not be spending the time and money to develop CF8 if it really was dead.
Don’t see Delphi there anywhere either.. list is very suspect.
I have 833 reasons why ComputerWorld is off:
http://www.gotcfm.com/thelist.cfm
833 isn’t much, is it :-(
I live in Asia in one of the fastest growing countries in the world: no one learns or uses CF. Are they learning CF in China and elsewhere? I doubt it.
Adobe/MM/CF have done a poor job promoting a good technology. Until there is a free server and some killer open-source apps, cf will continue to cling to expensive sales and dwindle apart from that.
hmmm, I think its a bit too late to turn around to complete with .NET and JAVA and PHP. Let’s face the reality that coldfusion is heading the same way as Director heading!(MM tried to change Lingo to Javscript at the end! but too late). what Adobe can do now(only way) is to make Coldfusion like Severside FLEX! use AS3 as default language and MXML or CFComponent as the Markup componet…tie it up with Flash to survive!
Ziggy, only 1 million+ chinese sites using Coldfusion:
http://www.google.co.uk/search?source=ig&hl=en&q=inurl%3Acfm+site%3Acn&btnG=Google+Search&meta=
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>>only 1 million+ chinese sites using Coldfusion
Thank you Googlemaster :-) But that’s pages, not sites, no?
And that’s because they’re probably using pirated copies! Coldfusion costs $1 in Asia. But I know where I am few use it anyway.
But goes back to my point about a free server… :-)
Our of curiosity:
1,430,000 for inurl:cfm site:cn
3,730,000 for inurl:php site:cn
4,200,000 for inurl:asp site:cn.
Just a follow-up:
74,600 for inurl:cfm site:vn
1,420,000 for inurl:php site:vn
1,900,000 for inurl:asp site:vn
374,000 for inurl:cfm site:th
1,730,000 for inurl:php site:th
1,290,000 for inurl:asp site:th
446,000 for inurl:cfm site:my
1,290,000 for inurl:php site:my
1,210,000 for inurl:asp site:my
So CF seems to run at 25-35% of others except in Vietnam where it’s at 3%. Again, CF is commonly available for $1 in these countries which can’t be discounted, both literally and figuratively :-)
Obviously these figures all depend on country domain pages google picks up, not actual usage in countries.