While working as the senior level developer for a small liberal arts college, I've had the luxury of deciding the technology to be used internally for custom applications. When I first started, the college was using Coldfusion 7, HTML, and many MS Access databases. Over the course of the past 11 years, we've moved to Oracle, are on CF11, and utilizing AngularJS / Angular for our front ends. Coldfusion is still doing the heavy lifting in interfacing with Oracle. During those 11 years, we also found ourselves developing Adobe (now Apache) Flex applications. Flex was a great tool - easy to develop in and fairly easy to deploy when Flash was ubiquitous. But Flex was not great on mobile platforms. Hence our move to Angular due to the idea that we wanted to give our users a rich web experience. So over the course of the past two years, we've been either retiring Flex applications altogether due to the direction that some departments have taken (read outside vendor); or ret
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