Three or Four years back I had three completely unrelated people tell me at different times that CF could only connect to Access databases.
I have no idea who was spreading that particular piece of misinformation around but it's amazing how people will cling to bad info despite all attempts to re-educate them, it lost me business despite me producing proof that they were wrong. On 15/11/06, Big Mad Kev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well a few years back a new guy in the office slagged CF of to me and I just > dismissed him, > > Now later he has seen that all CF Projects have been completed on time every > time in budget and all Java/.NET have been delayed and over budget every > time and now gives it some respect, and when I showed him the > charting/reports/event gateways he couldn't understand how you could do it > so quickly so I say CF is mind blowing to any one and you have to forgive > them for not understanding :-) > > > My 2p > -----Original Message----- > From: Will Swain [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 15 November 2006 10:34 > To: CF-Talk > Subject: RE: grrrr.... > > > I had a 'discussion' with the IT consultant at a client of mine who insisted > that CF was built on ASP. He wouldn't have it any other way. He was > obviously an MS man and didn't view anything else as 'proper'. What annoyed > me more than anything else was that he was getting paid a small fortune as a > daily rate and clearly didn't know what he was talking about. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jenny Gavin-Wear [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 15 November 2006 10:17 > To: CF-Talk > Subject: RE: grrrr.... > > I totally agree. > > Last week my (now ex) hosting company (Vortech) told one of my customers > that CF is a crap development system and is full of security holes. > > I spoke to the guy and he hadn't got a clue about CF beyond basic > installation. > > Jenny > > -----Original Message----- > From: Crow T. Robot [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 14 November 2006 17:18 > To: CF-Talk > Subject: grrrr.... > > > I just got off the phone with a IT company who manages the web server for > one of our clients. This client is pretty small, non-profit, and we're just > doing a little ASP project with them. In the course of our conversation, he > asked what other languages we use. I tell him CF, ASP.NET, ASP, and PHP. > His > reply to me was "You still use ColdFusion? What a piece of crap!". Of > course, I bristle any time I hear stuff like this, and I whoa'ed him up a > little. As we got deeper into the conversation, I found out that he was > basing his whole experience on a legacy CF5 server install that he did a few > weeks ago for a client of his. I tried and tried to explain that he's > comparing apples to oranges when talking about modern CFMX vs. CF5, but he > just wouldn't hear it. I just wanted to strangle the guy. Why do IT people > have such know-it-all attitudes when they clearly don't know what they are > talking about? Seems to only happen in our industry.can't let the other guy > out-geek you, I guess. > > > > Bah - rant over. Just needed to get it out of my system. (had to do it via > my alias since I'm not sure who'll read this in the future.) > > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:260470 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4