Based out of Tempe, Arizona, Insight Enterprises, Inc. is one of the largest technology solution providers in the world, with more than 3000 employees worldwide and operations in the United States, Canada and the U.K. Insight sells just about every major technology brand, and has been doing so for 20 years. They also sell ColdFusion, and even better, they use it! In fact, their public facing site is built in ColdFusion MX, and ColdFusion is also used for lots of internal apps.
http://web.archive.org/web/20020808170440/www.insi...
In otherwords, they converted from PHP to CF. :)
About a month ago, I got a call from a recruiter that a Denver company was moving from CF to .NET and wanted someone to maintain the CF code. She said CF was on the way out. What an idiot.
And HI Brandon. What will it take to get you to a Denver CFUG meeting?
Many recruiters in many parts of the world have this attitude. I wonder where they get it from - what with them being asked by employers to find people skilled in specific areas, what would they know?
If recruiters are of the mindset that cf is on the way out, then thats reason for concern. These guys deal with skills and finding people with them. If they are not coming across coldfusion much (1 or 2 jobs per year they see in my state, and I hewar the same for entire countiries from folk in the newsgroups) they are not idiots for thinking cf is on the way out - one or two sites using cf hardly changes things when thousand and millions are switching to .net, php, ruby and java.
Fact is, cf is a niche product these days. It is easy to see why developers and recruiters alike sometimes think it is dead. (which is of course not the case)