Rick, I can offer this insight.
A couple of years ago, a client (who had obviously been schmoozed by a Typo3 evangelist) asked me to explain why ColdFusion was better than Typo3. This of course is like asking which is better, fiberglass or a Nissan Altima. The difference between applications and the underlying technology is lost on non-developers. Some people profit from this ignorance. The question is whether you want to fight the darkness or simply join in the profiteering. Kudos to you for attempting to set the record straight. -Billy Cox -----Original Message----- From: Rick Root [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2007 7:32 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Lack of CF understanding: Info Week Here's the letter I wrote.... ---------------- Mr. Babcock, Your recent article "Restore Backbone To Brittle Sites" seems to imply that Coldfusion only runs on Windows, IIS, and SQL Server: "TripHomes originally was built using ColdFusion, a Web site development tool that runs on Windows and depends on Microsoft's Internet Information Server Web server and SQL Server database." Of course, Coldfusion does not RELY on any of those things. At most, it typically relies on JRun, but will work with a variety of J2EE servers. It runs quite nicely on other platforms (Solaris and Linux, among others), and even on Windows supports the use of OTHER web servers, like Apache. I suspect, but nobody will ever know, that the site would have been just fine on Coldfusion, but as often happens with sites that grow over time, "Best practices" fall apart. It's easy to "rebuild a site" in any language and make it perform better than a site that was built over time. Heck, you could take a web site build in .NET over the last few years, and rebuild it today and make it better. Of course, I'm a coldfusion developer, so I take issue with the implications your article makes, that coldfusion is unreliable (it's not), and that it relies on Windows and IIS (it does not) Thanks for your time. Rick Root ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 The most significant release in over 10 years. Upgrade & see new features. http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion?sdid=RVJR Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:277270 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
