>and neither is that fact that ASP/PHP code is more >complicated and therefore will have more bugs.
I find the opposite Russ coming from PHP to CF Cf is alot more verbose than PHP. I am learning CF as I work for a CF shop FullTime as a Web Systems Developer. Cant speak for ASP >I don't think PHP has any sort of session management, so it's not even a >contender in the enterprise world. Can you elaborate on this?? I use session vars all the time in php. I have done apps for Verizon that are php. Eric On 2/7/07, Russ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think ASP/PHP do have cheaper hosting, and the whole selling point is > that > it's free. The fact that it will take longer to develop an app is not > immediately clear, and neither is that fact that ASP/PHP code is more > complicated and therefore will have more bugs. > > ASP also probably performs better then CF. From what I hear, Bluedragon > ..NET performs better then CF, and doesn't have the memory problems that > CF > does. > > Also if you want to have any sort of load balanced environment, I believe > ASP has it built in somewhere (haven't really looked into it), and it's > free, while for CF you have to shell out $12000 (2 Enterprise Licenses). > Even if you have a fairly low traffic site, but you would like to have a > load balanced environment, it's going to cost you a lot of money to get > there. (If you need session replication at least). Also, from what I've > been told, session replication doesn't work reliably with CF, although I > have not experienced problems myself. > > Another issue is that it doesn't scale easily. Not that CF can't scale, > but > if I have an a CF App that cost me $x to develop, and a ASP.NET app that > cost me $2x to develop, if I need to scale it out with multiple servers, > at > some point the cost of the licenses for the new servers outweigh the cost > of > developing the app in the first place. The fact that you can run CF on > linux and forego windows licensing costs offsets this somewhat, but > there's > still a significant difference. This is most likely why MySpace is moving > towards .NET. > > I don't think PHP has any sort of session management, so it's not even a > contender in the enterprise world. > > Personally, I don't know PHP or ASP.NET, but I should probably start > learning them. > > Russ > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Doug Brown [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 10:30 AM > > To: CF-Talk > > Subject: Re: Anyone interested in Railo hosting? > > > > Just a side note, or question...What reasons do people think that > asp/php > > has the stronghold on web development, and what can be done to make CF > > just > > as popular? > > > > A. Better performing code > > B. Cheaper development > > C. Cheaper hosting > > D. Other (Explain) > > > > > > Doug > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 Experience Flex 2 & MX7 integration & create powerful cross-platform RIAs http:http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:269008 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
