On Saturday, Mar 1, 2003, at 18:23 US/Pacific, samcfug wrote: > Our ColdFusion user group was given two copies of Contribute to be > given away as > a prize at a meeting. We tried, and no one was interested. They > remain > unclaimed after two meetings so far.
By contrast, Mike Chambers and Christian Cantrell offered Contribute at BACFUG and there was quite a bit of interest. It all depends on what you need. I'm an ardent fan of Contribute because we have a large number of project mini-sites that are pure HTML. It's very, very easy to manage these with a simple "browse'n'edit" application like Contribute. Until I moved from Windows to Mac, I kept Contribute open all the time and worked on drafts when I was offline and used to update websites whenever I thought of something to add. > The majority of our developers still use CF Studio 4.5. Not > dreamweaver, not > flash. Their comments are long the lines of "If it ain't broke, why > fix it?" And that's a perfectly reasonable position. Naturally, we'd like everyone to upgrade, but in reality, it doesn't happen very quickly for certain types of products. Typically with software, about 30% of your market upgrades immediately every time and 30% never upgrades (or takes forever to do it). The middle 40% may or may not upgrade. > Very few of them have any plans to migrate to the MX server products, > due to the > many and complex installation and configuration issues, that seem to > not go > away. It seems that with the updates, new issues are introduced. Server product upgrades are usually much more complex to deal with than desktop tools. A lot of CFers seem to still be on 4.5 or even 4.0 and many have no immediate plans to upgrade. As for the "complex" issues - I think that's just a tradeoff that comes naturally with increased power and capability. J2EE servers have many more 'tweakable' parameters that CF has historically had. In order to gain the flexibility and benefits of moving to a J2EE platform, you have to accept some increased complexity (see, for example, several of the entries in my blog discussing CFMX for J2EE configuration scenarios). > CF 5.0, an Allaire product, still remains stable and viable for > Dynamic data > driven web sites. Technically it is a Macromedia product - it shipped after the merger - but I understand your point. However, you should remember that CFMX nee "Neo" started life long before Macromedia bought Allaire and it was the same team of developers and QA folks that continued to work on it after the merger. You could just as accurately describe CFMX as an Allaire product. But then the Allaire-good, Macromedia-bad argument would lose some of its impact :) Sean A Corfield -- Director, Architecture Web Technology Group -- Macromedia, Inc. tel: (415) 252-2287 -- cell: (415) 717-8473 aim/iChat: seancorfield -- http://www.macromedia.com An Architect's View -- http://www.macromedia.com/go/arch_blog Announcing Macromedia DevNet Subscriptions Maximize your power with our new premium software subscription Find out more: http://www.macromedia.com/go/devnetsubs ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq 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=89.70.4
