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Brad Wood

May 13, 2021

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Our friends at TeraTech help put together a comprehensive survey of the entire CFML community to get a feel for how it's evolving, what new technologies are getting picked up, and what the current pain points are.  We use this data at Ortus to help us decide what CF engines to support and how to help the community.

Here's an example question from the survey that tracks the most popular versions of Adobe ColdFusion and Lucee Server:

https://teratech.com/state-of-the-cf-union-2021-survey

If you haven't taken the State of the CF Union 2021 Survey yet, please do so and pass it on to all your coworkers and friends who may not be on social media themselves.  The more responses we get, the better data we have.  And make sure you remember to check all the Ortus products you are using while you're taking it!

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