This topic has been run through the mud. If you want to go a certain route:
first make a conclusion , run tests to support that conclusion , show test
results to your manager.
ColdFusion costs money.
ASP only runs on MS.
PHP is free (managers are usually afraid to go that way [cya]).
As far as speed, load, scalability, maintainability. These are highly
dependent on the developer writing the code.
"Adrian Cooper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, December 10, 2000 7:38 AM
> Hi, does anyone have any definitive feedback on how Cold Fusion, PHP & ASP
> rate against each other in terms of speed, scalability, robustness.
>
> I believe in terms of ease of development Cold Fusion is hands down the
> winner, but how about on those other fronts over the long run?
>
> Also, which works better as far as speed/reliability - Cold Fusion on
> Windows or Linux? How about PHP on Linux vs. Cold Fusion on anything else.
> Appreciate any feedback because we're trying to make a long term decision
on
> this front.
I don't know about PHP - but CF is vastly better than ASP in my quite
extensive
experience of both - CF is faster and *much* more stable. I had some legacy
ASP
apps which were written in VB, and they frequently crashed the IIS services -
not just the webserver it was running on - all the IIS services on the server
-
it also crashed the MMC, so a reboot of the server was the only solution. I
have seen similar things with ASP before - that is not untypical.
OTOH - I have apps here, one with over 2000 big CF templates per site, and
they
behave impeccably, and it is much faster - particuarly talking to databases
over
ODBC. I can't imagine what ASP could do which CF couldn't do - or conversly -
I
am sure CF can do alot more.
If you have the choice - go with CF.
Adrian Cooper.
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