ColdFusion and the Web Application Market

Brian, I have come from the ASP world, I have also programmed in perl and now learning PHP. I don't need to be convinced of how easy it is to develop in CF, what I need convincing of is that my next job will not be CF and that is the reality of this world. The job market is the key to this thread that I have kept alive. If you can not convince a web development house to keep CF, how in the hell is someone learning CF going to keep a CF job... They can't. So developers move on to the flavour at the time, CF isn't it and I for one would like to see the CF jobs increase more. The problem is that we are tendering for projects down here, and a lot of these tenders are from companies who budget is tight. Now if the CF server software puts us $200 over our competitors that would mean we don't use it we will use ASP instead. That is the reality of this thread, If there are no jobs for CF, then there will be no need for a developer to learn CF. Again I have 8 years of CF development, would love to continue with it and it only. But face it, think like that and your dreaming to think that everything else would be fine. Sorry but just being passionate towards the technology that I love is not a crime. Regards Andrew Scott Technical Consultant NuSphere Pty Ltd Level 2/33 Bank Street South Melbourne, Victoria, 3205 Phone: 03 9686 0485  -  Fax: 03 9699 7976