On Tuesday, August 27, 2002, at 09:11 , Matthew R. Small wrote: > Intranets are one thing I can think of. I have an intranet here that I > wrote last year using CF - because I am most experienced at CF. > However, I believe that had I written it in ASP, I would have not > encountered the numerous problems and trials that using COM through CF > gives us. I have actually written one page in CF that calls an ASP page > because ASP does the job quicker and easier.
But COM has nothing to do with Intranet. CF is a great tool for writing Intranets (we're in the process of converting our legacy ASP-based Intranet to CF). I agree that if your web application is heavily dependent on COM then you need to think carefully about CF because of issues with COM (historically and currently). If your web application doesn't need COM - and a lot do not - then CF is a very good tool that doesn't need to be restricted to "small-medium sized sites". After all, we're rewriting macromedia.com using CFMX and we get about 6m age views a day. Remember: using the best tool for the tool is not about picking just one technology and using it for the whole job, it's about picking the right tool for each part of the job and integrating the whole (with the caveat that the integration effort may be sufficiently high that the second best tool for one job might mean less integration - and therefore be a better choice). CFMX is very good at integration - lots of high-level tags to access other systems as well as Java integration - so the "price" of using using CF is low from an integration p.o.v. Sean A Corfield -- http://www.corfield.org/blog/ "If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive." -- Margaret Atwood ______________________________________________________________________ Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
