So ColdFusion is definitely not dead. If you need further proof of that, you can check out isColdFusiondead.com, where we have a lot of detailed information about that question. But no, it's a funny thing that we hear, you know, every couple of years ColdFusion shifted from companies, from starting at Allaire to Macromedia to Adobe and any time that sort of happens, there's always this "What's going to happen?" sort of thing.
But no, thankfully Adobe is really, really helping ColdFusion and it's really starting to blossom, what we're seeing is what we're calling like a "ColdFusion Renaissance." In the last few years, the ColdFusion community has almost tripled in size, going from about 250,000 developers about four or five years ago to about 800,000 developers today.
We're anticipating even getting close to a million developers worldwide, hopefully maybe by sometime next year. We've really increased how many companies are using ColdFusion, as well. So 75 of the top Fortune 100 companies are running ColdFusion. About 12,000 companies worldwide have ColdFusion installed for internal applications and public websites development.
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It would be wonderful if this is accurate. I would like to find out where all these developers are hiding. Maybe we need CFdeveloperRegistrar.com ? ;-)
i can hear you indeed. And i bet there are others that have same question. Of course there can't be an accurate estimation of the REAL number of developers. But they at least could tell us HOW they did this estimation. Because if it's only the number of trial downloads, then how they may prove hypothetically that every developer did not do 3 downloads over time and so the real number going down to the initial 250,000. I am sure of course that there are many more at real, but still it doesn't close the question of HOW they did the estimation.