This happened to me when I was working at Baylor. When new management took over, they were totally on the MS banswagon and I was forced to learn ..NET/C#. They completely did away with over 5 years of Intranet in ColdFusion and decided to convert it all to .NET. I was disappointed that they did not give CF a chance and excited to learn a new technology. I became frustrated when I discovered that it took me more than twice as long to write .NET code as it did CF. And I was re-writing the sites that I originally did in CF, so it is not as though I were not familiar with the app. In a nutshell, MS thinks "Why go three houses down to get there when you can go around the block?". I will forever stay with CF if I can. Of course I keep my .NET skills up just in case. Since I am in a brand spanky new position at our school district, I get to call the shots and they just ordered me SQL Server 2005 and CF8 along with new hardware to go with them. Pretty exciting. And I am going to get my FLEX skills up to the level where I can re-write the district website in FLEX. Wooo Hoo.
So Robert, get ready to spend more time coding. Heh. On 7/31/07, Rey Bango <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Robert, Its sad to see any developer give up on CF but it sounds that by you saying, "I just got my company to pay for a series of classes for .net and vb.net", its a decision that you've been mulling for some time. You just don't wake up one day and arbitrarily say, "I'm going to drop several thousands of dollars on retooling our staff". Rey... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| ColdFusion 8 - Build next generation apps today, with easy PDF and Ajax features - download now http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/coldfusion/cf8_beta_whatsnew_052907.pdf Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:284977 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
