You suck. > -----Original Message----- > From: Loathe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 2:10 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: RE: ColdFusion is dying again over on Talk > Importance: High > > 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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