Good developer shortage?
Tags: Coldfusion
Five years ago when I got back into the industry, after taking a break for awhile. I found that the amount of jobs for ColdFusion, short to say the least.
Not long after I did get back into the industry, the subject of the amount of jobs versus the usage. But it was evident at the time, that Adobe or was it Macromedia wasn't listening. Even the spokes people for the company were defending the product, which is fair enough. But we do work in the industry using the product, and I would have thought that enough people saying the same thing. Would ring some alarm bells. But nope, no such thing..
Anyway it appears that from an independent research company, found that although there is an increase interest and use of ColdFusion. That there was a lack of getting good developers, and was a primary problem companies faced.
Well it is not surprising that the world went wild about OpenSource, and all of a sudden those who used it the most began looking at alternatives. Which left a handful of enthusiasts and maybe a very minority of others, that still see the potential that is in the product.
Anyway this is not meant for another debate on that, but the question is if Adobe are now aware of this. What or how are they going to address this issue?
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<p> How will Adobe answer the lack of CF developers?</p><p>By making ColdFusion free to educational institutions, as well as students and faculty.</p><p>By making the Flex SDK open source. Also, by making the Flex Builder IDE free to students and faculty. Flex plays best with ColdFusion which will encourage more developers to review, and start using ColdFusion.</p><p><a href="http://www.adobe.com/education/products/">http://www.adobe.com/education/products/</a></p>
# Posted By andy matthews | 9/28/08 5:49 PM -
Andy, yes that is a step for a long term solution. And for anyone else who might not know, Flex 3 has a similar license. Not sure if there are differences, but I noticed it available at the same location you can apply for the ColdFusion Educational License.
But what about now, what is in the pipeline to perhaps help that roadmap?# Posted By Andrew Scott | 9/28/08 8:06 PM -
<p>Adobe don't have to address the issue anymore. There are now 3 separate opensource cfml engine projects. OpenBD, Railo and SmithProject. Although Adobe are creating a CFML language comittee to discuss the ongoing development of the language as more of a "standard", similar to the J2EE "steering comittee" (or whatever it's called). So long story short, these problems are coming to an end. Oh and plus Adobe have also now instituted a totally free license for their ColdFusion product for use in education, so universities can deploy however much they want to the classroom. (Though I expect they still have to pay to use it for other projects.) </p>
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<p>@ike - I am sorry I thought I was talking about Good Developers? Your points are valid, if the argument was for something about the death of CF. I am talking about how to get the job market back, you can't expect the open source market to do this in the Short term.</p>
# Posted By Andrew Scott | 9/28/08 10:55 PM
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