May I quote your boss on that? It could be quite useful. larry
At 10:38 AM 6/18/2003 -0400, Candace Cottrell wrote: >These were my boss's reasons. > >He pretty much made the decision. > > >We have already devoted a significant amount of resources to Cold >Fusion Development and Macromedia Flash. It would be very wasteful in >our opinion, to throw this knowledge out and would be problematic to >attempt to integrate the two technologies. We feel that both platforms >will be available and highly supported for the foreseeable future, hence >going with the market leader is not as important. We have experimented >with coding on the .Net platform and found that it takes significantly >more lines of code and time to accomplish similar tasks. This is >critical in our environment since we have only one full time developer. >We are still somewhat concerned over the licensing of the system. We >fully understand that Microsoft has changed its practices significantly >over the past year, but we still have a bad taste in our mouth over past >licensing problems. We also sampled many people in the development >communities and found that there was no compelling reason to switch at >this time.Candace K. Cottrell, Web Developer >The Children's Medical Center >One Children's Plaza >Dayton, OH 45404 >937-641-4293 >http://www.childrensdayton.org >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6/18/2003 10:34:54 AM >>> >Great to hear! If I may ask, what was the deciding factor? > >-----Original Message----- >From: Candace Cottrell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2003 10:31 AM >To: CF-Community >Subject: My .NET vs. ColdFusion situation... update > > >I am pleased as punch to report that we will not be switching to .NET >and we will continue with our CF efforts. > >Now we are evaluating Content Management Systems that support CF. > >MedSeek is OUT. > >Commonspot and Merant Collage seem to be good contenders. Any other >suggestions? > >Candace K. Cottrell, Web Developer >The Children's Medical Center >One Children's Plaza >Dayton, OH 45404 >937-641-4293 >http://www.childrensdayton.org > > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=5 Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
