Nick, We had the same problem with a major client, so the thing is that we told a small fib by a technical means only. We told them that the application will be deployed on a J2EE server running java code. We didn't tell them that the code was written using Coldfusion, or don't people think that way logically anymore?
Regards Andrew Scott Analyst Programmer CMS Transport Systems Level 2/33 Bank Street South Melbourne, Victoria, 3205 Phone: 03 9699 7988 - Fax: 03 9699 7976 Quote: ....the myth of socialism is far stronger than the reality of capitalism. That is because capitalism is not really an ism at all. It is what people do if you leave them alone. - Arnold Beichmen, Hoover Institute Fellow ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: Nick McClure [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 25 January 2006 7:16 AM To: CF-Community Subject: RE: Why is coldfusion better. Rapid development isn't as important as you think, not to a customer. They want something done using a technology they have heard of. I have seen it time and time again. When you make a bid to a customer quoting a CF site that it done faster and cheaper, vs. a .NET site that takes longer and costs more, the customer will get the .NET site, or Java. Why, because they have heard of them, major companies at the front of development technologies are supporting them. Allaire, Macromedia, Adobe, not names that make a company think development technology. When people hear Macromedia they thing Flash, when people hear adobe they think Acrobat. We lost bids for that very reason, that was the driving force that caused my old company to go away from CF. When we started selling pre-packaged apps, the same thing came up. We can sell it with .NET for $500, all they need is a windows server. Or we could sell it for $1,700 with CF Server. Often companies wouldn't want to put CF Server onto their .NET server. CF is a great language, but Rapid Development is nowhere near the top of my list of important things when picking a language. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:194113 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=89.70.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
