I always have seen the threads that state "My manager decided that CF costs money, so we have decided to use technology that is free".
You know the threads I'm talking about. Well, this morning, that came true for me. I was told we don't have the budget for CF Enterprise (even though we just got a $15,000,000 grant last year and are purchasing a $2-3,000,000 business system) so CF is on its way out in the next year. The office of university relations has been wanting us to get a content management system CMS so we can better distribute content chores to different departments rather than tying up the web developers. Well, to counter that, my manager said, we will use Microsoft's Sharepoint Portal server. "It is an excellent CMS application!" My mgr also told me that the main reason we are dropping ColdFusion is that EVERY OTHER application server vendor does not charge you to purchase additional licenses to cluster applications. If we built a web cluster to load balance, we would have to purchase the same number of CF licenses as physical servers. He said no other vendor requires that. You pay for a single license and you are free to use on any load balanced cluster. I have spent the last seven years using CF and have such a background that I can quickly get apps up and running, although they may not be totally efficient, but I can fix those at a later time when time is not as critical. Now, we are getting three large web-based applications, all built in Java or MS technology, dropping ColdFusion and yet the number of application requests continue to increase. Wait until we get our business system running. Then, requests will skyrocket. So, that leaves me at point-zero with Java, people jumping on my ass to get development requests built using technology no one at our campus has ever seen, and little to no budget for training or other resources. (Except we have a coupon for an IBM Java class or two.) It just really seems unrealistic to totally dump all the CF knowledge, start at nothing with Java and still expect to get more work done than ever before. I don't really expect any replies about the justifications of CF vs other technologies. It won't help. This guy came from IBM and is very deep in MS's ass as well. MS hung the moon and lit the stars, if you know what I mean. I just wanted to bitch to you guys. You guys who probably understand this situation as well. Now, I have to try to figure out how to get three totally-different web portals, running on different application servers and physical servers, to appear as a single entity. Oh well. My day sucks royally! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Find out how CFTicket can increase your company's customer support efficiency by 100% http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=49 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:152421 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
