Flex adoption leads to thousands of new ColdFusion developers?
In doing so, I stumbled upon a post he wrote while at the conference about a conversation he had with several people following the Birds-of-a-Feather discussion between the Adobe folks and the community about the next version of ColdFusion 9.
Apparently some very interesting things were revealed in that conversation, one of them being that many folks who are starting to learn Flex have also gained an interest in learning and using ColdFusion. How many? The number cited was 75,000.
I'm not sure how Adobe determined that correlation between the uptake in Flex and the uptake in ColdFusion, but even if the real number is half that amount, that's still pretty impressive in my book.
Other items were discussion, including a mention of Adobe's current view regarding open source and ColdFusion. I encourage folks to go read the blog entry for themselves:
http://maximporges.blogspot.com/2008/05/future-of-cf-part-ii.html
Thing is though I would have though Adobe would be pushing out tutorials how to combine the two, trying to get new people to play and look at it as an option. I think they missed/are missing a huge opportunity.