A developer new to ColdFusion made a post in the Adobe forums. After reading this though the developer made some really great points. When talking about researching CF, the reader had some of the following points.
"So I thought well I am using Adobe anyway let's see this ColdFusion rather than go back to MS or turn to PHP/ROR. You have to understand having been in front ends and graphics I have some basics of them all anyway.
I nearly did not as the web is not full of praise at all on the surface for CF. ROR is hyped but I did not like it's feel (framework is good bit CF does it too if you want to). The PHP community was too fragmented into a multitude of Open Source Projects - most of which I would never use. ASP had changed too much for me and I did not own a windows license anymore. I am using OSX and Linux distros of the day.
So I looked up the CF community. I noticed unlike the PHP/ASP/ROR etc you had kinda like father figures here (who help newbies!)." -Scot2009
And this quote as well:
"You can learn for free. What is all this CF costs money rubbish I was told before I started. I have found very good shared hosts with great prices and even some using open source CF really cheap. If you need a dedicated machine and can't afford CF then you can't afford a dedicated machine. So that is all rubbish that is spread by other web application server language users. Adobe needs to make new coders know this is rubbish." -Scot2009
So in short, this new developer found that most of the anti-CF stuff on the web is rubbish. For those of us who use the technology every day, we know most of this is rubbish and don't pay attention to unfounded rants by others.
From what this user said, he was almost turned away from CF by the fragmented rants of other communities. I hope Adobe pays attention to this users post, Adobe (IMHO) needs to make better efforts to kill these myths from a marketing prospective.
