G-d damn it, someone argue with me :) > -----Original Message----- > From: loathe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 1:31 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: RE: ColdFusion is dying again over on Talk > > > 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. > > > > > > > >
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