Yesterday Adam Euans, one of our senior developers, forwarded me a link to a blog post entitled Universities Love Using ColdFusion.
Adam loves using ColdFusion (for its speed of development and flexibility among other things) and he once was a ColdFusion developer at Case Western Reserve University. (Disclaimer: I am a CWRU alum. Go Spartans!) So you can imagine that seeing this blog post warmed his little programming heart.
Brice Cheddarn, the blog’s author, provides some pretty eye opening results. Every single university in the Big 10 uses ColdFusion in some shape or form. Same goes in the PAC 10. And almost all the Ivy League does. The list goes on. (He does not provide any insight into the UAA, CWRU’s league, but I imagine the results are the same. The UAA always tries to stay in lockstep with those pesky ivies.)
The blog is clear – ColdFusion is everywhere in higher education.
Here at WRIS Web Services, we’d like to modify the statement a tad – ColdFusion is everywhere in education - including K-12.
Several of the best known private and public schools in Northeast Ohio are using ColdFusion too:
- Beachwood Schools
- Orange Schools
- Cleveland Heights-University Heights Schools
- Euclid Schools
- Laurel School
And that’s just the list I know off the top of my head because they happen to be our clients. There’s surely more, both in Cleveland and nationwide, but I don’t have nearly the research persistence of Brice to look for them.
We’ve always felt that ColdFusion was a great fit for our school clients. I’m glad to see we aren’t the only ones who believe in this programming language for education.
Does your education institution use ColdFusion? Why or why not?
