Just a thought, considering that 4.5 doesn't support even UDFs, I can see how any given project, with that feature alone, could be a little bit faster to code...
4.5 is slow, unsupported by MM and doesn't adequately support certain current technologies such as XML, Web services and Unicode. - Calvin -----Original Message----- From: Simon Horwith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 4:03 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Business Case for a 4.5 -> 7 upgrade Many people have already responded to your post - and all of their reasons are valid. Based on what you've said, I can tell you that I'll verify all of the reasons you wanted verified, except for the "development time decreased" reason... that may or may not be true depending on what you want to do? Speaking of "what you want to do"... there could be one or one hundred reasons to upgrade depending on what you want to do. You only mentioned reporting and pagination... both of which, ColdFusion MX 7 has made huge advances in. If you can be more specific about what you (or your employer) want to accomplish, we can give you better ammunition. ~Simon Simon Horwith CIO, AboutWeb - http://www.aboutweb.com Editor-in-Chief, ColdFusion Developers Journal Member of Team Macromedia Macromedia Certified Master Instructor Blog - http://www.horwith.com Duncan I Loxton wrote: >Hi everyone, > >I have taken the opportunity to strike on the new version of CFMX and >get the ailing company I work for to drag themselves into the new >century with a spanking new version of CF. This means getting the >money out of the Board and convincing them that its worth it, by means >of a business case documentation. > >Now we run our internal mission critical app on 4.5, our intranet on >6.1 and 5 odd websites on 4.5. We have CF server crashes more than >you can imagine, and I hope 7 will be able to go some way to helping >us out. > >As you can all imagine we fight on a daily basis with the server, >reporting and pagination etc etc > >The reasons I have so far (which I would like verified): >Multiple instances of the server can be clustered - in effect >performing failover - therfore reliability >improved reporting using flash >multi part forms in flash with tabs >Printability in flash and pdf generation >development time decreased >ability to move into apps via sms, and onto mobile devices >better comm via web services. > >Are there any other really good reasons (from a Chief Exec level) that >would be great to convince them to change? > >I hope this will promote a bit of dialogue, I am certainly interested >as to what great reasons I can give. > >Thanks! > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Logware (www.logware.us): a new and convenient web-based time tracking application. Start tracking and documenting hours spent on a project or with a client with Logware today. Try it for free with a 15 day trial account. http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=67 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:194025 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
