Call me Machiavellian... but I agree.
This guy sounds like he's unknowingly pushing your company off a cliff. Grab the
valuables and jump! You might as well get the most out of it you can,
considering he's decimating your job security.
Switching technologies on existing projects almost never helps the client.
David Cummins
"Milks, Jim" wrote:
>
> In my opinion, he heard that the other CTOs on the Golf Course said CF was
> "junior" and, heaven forbid, costs money! This is a common problem. Don't
> resist. You're skill set will be greatly improved, and he will be
> accountable for the longer development times and issues with a great, but
> not yet mature technology in PHP.
>
> Jim
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2000 12:30 PM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: Re: Another debate
>
> As long as you write good code and follow all the security notes from the
> Allaire security zone, there is no security problem. From the tone and
> message of the email, he doesn't really care to hear the truth about it.
> To be honest, PHP has its strengths, but its still a script based language
> rather than a tag based one which means its slower to write than CF when
> integrating into HTML and doing output. Its DB work isn't all to good and
> the error handling is almost non-existent. If you look on the PHP site,
> there's actually a rather informative comparison of the two on some
> features.
> If the boss wants to listen and add PHP to your companies skill set, then
> I'd agree with him. If he just wants to dump all of the CF stuff for PHP,
> then argue with him about it. Bring your proofs and back it up with the fact
> that CF is accepted by the corporate industry while PHP isn't (yet).
>
> > The new boss has arrived in my department and of course he wants everyone
> to
> > switch from the awesome and all mighty cold fusion to .... PHP. We do need
> > some other strengths in our department for those clients who don't want us
> > to host their application or don't have cf on their server, but, he wants
> a
> > complete switch. Here is a glimpse into his last email:
> >
> > "It could be argued that both technologies have their strengths and
> > weaknesses. However, in the corporate IT department, CF is usually not an
> > option due to cost and security problems. I realize that changing
> > perceptions and old habits are sometimes difficult, but necessary.
> > Especially in our industry (high-tech).
> >
> > The need to deliberate the issue further is a mute point."
> >
> > Does anyone have any opinions on his security problems comment? It seems
> > that alliare is pretty good about getting patches up - or we have just
> been
> > lucky and not had any problems. And, would you agree that in the
> corporate
> > IT department cf is "usually" not an option?
> >
> > Thanks in advance for any input.
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