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Last week it came to my attention that ColdFusion is being used by 75 of the Fortune 100 companies. Then, I was also informed that ColdFusion was ranked in the top four application servers by developers, just behind Websphere, Geronimo and Windows Server.
In the last couple of weeks, ColdFusion has been “the big fuss” of the world wide web. It’s totally scalable, and the learning curve is smaller than any other web language currently out there.
My question is:
What else do you need to crack on with ColdFusion development? It’s FREE for educational purposes, you can have FREE hosting for development, there’s a flawless FREE training material and a GREAT community.
I’d appreciate comments on that matter, as well as questions from people who might be thinking of starting with ColdFusion, but are still unsure about a thing or another.
+ free developer edition
+ free ide (eclipse+cfeclipse)
+ more free community: adobe cf forums, HoF cf-talk mailing list
+ great big vendor behind it, very dedicated to making the product better all the time
+ great many excellent CF blogs (yours included)
+ cf engines like openBD and soon Railo, for those who need a free alternative
Yes, yes and yes! We’ve got all that! I still don’t know why people go for other things. Obviously, I don’t wanna sound like a fan-boy here, but ColdFusion is the best at what it does!
And the community…. Ahh the community is by far, the best community I’ve ever seen.
Thanks for your inputs mate!
It’s the best language money can buy. There in lies the problem. Every other major web language is either open source or free as in beer. Yes even .NET if you use Mono. CF costs thousands of dollars more than any small cool startup is willing to pay.
@Joe not anymore: http://www.getrailo.com
Railo is Open Source!!!!