what features you need most. If you rely heavily on Flash integration, then
my guess is the ColdFusion will always be a better choice than BlueDragon.
On the other hand, if you're looking for ASP.NET integration (for example),
then BlueDragon is the obvious (only) choice.
As for "lagging big time in the compatibility dept", I'll only point out the
Blackstone is finally delivering in 2005 features that were pioneered by
BlueDragon and have been in use by our customers since 2002 (standard J2EE
WAR/EAR deployment, precompiled CFML templates for source-less deployment,
CFIMAGE tag, etc.). Other more recent features, such as CFC serialization,
are supported by BlueDragon 6.1 now, but won't be in Blackstone until 2005.
So, again, the question of who is leading and who is lagging isn't as
clear-cut as you might think. The feature sets of ColdFusion and BlueDragon
will never be exactly the same, so the choice will come down to: which
features do you need the most? Repeat slowly: choice is good...choice is
good...choice is good...
Vince Bonfanti
New Atlanta Communications, LLC
http://www.newatlanta.com
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From: Calvin Ward [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2004 1:45 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: BLACKSTONE: Software Development Times Article
Hmm, that's an interesting point on flash generation... Did New
Atlanta just get left behind big time in the compatability dept?
-----Original Message-----
From: Matt Liotta
Date: 8/18/04 8:59 am
To: CF-Talk
Subj: RE: BLACKSTONE: Software Development Times Article
I don't know what to do with you Tony. You keep posting comments
with no
basis in facts that don't make much sense anyway. I'd really like to
avoid
addressing them or falling prey to my desire to respond negatively.
Is that
what you want? Is there some point to your comments?
For the rest of you reading this, I have no financial interest in
the
success or failure of BlueDragon. Although, I would like to see them
succeed. I don't know whether New Atlanta will implement the event
gateway.
I don't know whether they can. I certainly think they should
implement it if
for no other reason then to be compatible with ColdFusion. We all
want that
right?
Personally, if I were to guess which functionality would be hard to
implement in BlueDragon I wouldn't guess something like the event
gateway. I
would guess something that produces Flash on the fly.
-Matt
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