Sorry Ray, just using your email as a valid point to jump the coldfusion/asp.Net fight over here.
Anyway, a lot of valid concerns have been mentioned. One of the things CF is not good at, and really can't do at all, is to produce desktop applications; however I wouldn't say that is a negative as I am WEB DEVELOPER. I have made applications for PDAs, for Desktops, for phones you name, hell I even wrote some stuff to generate XML for menus on Cisco IP phones in CF. Now, I was accused of "arguing just to argue", I'm sorry but that couldn't be further from the truth. This is my lively hood we are talking about. This is what pays for my food and house and clothes and my kids stuff. If there was something better I would learn it in a heart beat. Something else to note, I am not saying CF is better than ASP.Net. The point that I am arguing is that you can: 1. Do anything is ASP.Net that I can't do in CF. That's not true, I'm sure I can duplicate any functionality you have built in ASP.Net. I might use java to do so, but I do that all the time. 2. The cost of CF is negatively impacting it. I don't think this is true either. As someone mentioned on Talk, how would it look to big business if Adobe were letting CF go too cheap? I mean, look at the price of say web sphere. I think that it was Big Ben that did the comparison of how much you would have to spend on additions, components and controls to mimic what CF contains natively. The ASP server was some ridiculous amount like 80,000 dollars. Listen, ADO, are you serious? I am using ADO right now to connect to various DBs as it gives me some functionality I was missing with JDBC, so nope I can do that too :) Keep them coming man, I have yet to find anything that ASP.Net can do that CF cannot do. > -----Original Message----- > From: Ray Champagne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 12:54 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: RE: ColdFusion is dying again over on Talk > > > Seriously, along with drivers going 5 miles under the speedlimit.... > > > > -- > > Casey > > Ugh, I'm such a dork, I actually was thinking of hardware drivers and > thinking WTF does he mean? I need to step away from the computer for a > few > minutes, I think. Sigh. > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:216418 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
