I was reading this post Why ColdFusion? where the author states “ColdFusion is in use at 75 of the Fortune 100 companies” but I don’t think I’ve ever seen who on the list actually uses ColdFusion? Why? Is it a secret?
I work for Lockheed Martin (#57) and we do use ColdFusion almost exclusively on our contract for NIEHS.
So here is the top 10:
- Wal-Mart Stores
- Exxon Mobil
- General Motors
- Chevron
- ConocoPhillips
- General Electric
- Ford Motor
- Citigroup
- Bank of America Corp.
- American Intl. Group
The full 2007 list can be found here.
So I’m curious - do you work at one of these companies? How do you use ColdFusion? Is it your primary development language? What other languages do you use? Internal use only? Leave a comment!
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#27 - yes we use it - internally. Of course we use many, many other languages - I wouldn’t call any of them ‘primary’ - we have a massive intranet…
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Having done consulting for them, I can attest that Kroger (#26) has about 15-20 CF developers on staff, including contractors and FTEs, and including representation on the corporate Web Architecture group. Java is a slightly larger focus, but CF is widely utilized.
I have a friend that works for Bank of America (#9) and CF is the primary language for web and intranet there.
another question to ask of these inside the “top 100″ is “why”?
I’ve yet to come across a new CFcustomer. Someone that has the choice of RubyonRails or ASP.NET or whatever.
the “newist” company to CF I know bought in with CF5. Would they make the same choice today?
by rights they *should* with all the cool CF8 features, but is that a reality or are we just seeing “churning”?
I do work for one of the Fortune 100 companies (I’d rather not say which one). Coldfusion is just one of the many languages used here. Our group switched to CF 7.0 and recently upgraded to 8.0. We decided against .NET since at that time we were thinking about moving back to Unix servers. Money wasn’t an issue so we never really considered any of the free offerings like PHP, Python, or Ruby. So that basically left us with JSP and CF. We finally settled on CF since we were doing a lot of things with Flash and we wanted to use Flash Remoting. Since then we have started to get into Flex and are really glad that we chose CF. Overall we have had absolutely no problems with CF. It has been rock solid for us.