I recently interviewed for a contract job with the Human Development Reports division of the United Nations. They are using ColdFusion. The front end is HTML, but they use AJAX to hit ColdFusion servers to populate content and data. Government at many levels uses ColdFusion. (Yes, I know, citing that Government does it that way is usually not a good thing, but ColdFusion makes programers for the Government more efficient.) I know that many colleges and Universities are using ColdFusion.
A major portion of the Real Estate industry runs on ColdFusion. One of the largest MLS search engine providers is 100% ColdFusion. Literally serving up millions of requests per day from 4 servers. Literally thousands of broker and agent websites rely on this ColdFusion service for their businesses. ColdFusion is easy to learn ColdFusion allows you to rapidly build complex applications ColdFusion can scale, does scale and has scaled to meet your traffic needs ColdFusion allows you to be flexible. Meaning you can have a pure html/ajax front end served by ColdFusion, or a Flex front end, or mobile app. All powered by the same ColdFusion backend. ColdFusion provides your application with Rapid Flexible Power! Wil Genovese Sr. Web Application Developer/ Systems Administrator Wil Genovese Consulting 651-894-4238 wilg...@trunkful.com www.trunkful.com On Aug 25, 2010, at 12:52 PM, Peter Boughton wrote: > >> To respond to an IT director who thinks ColdFusion is dated and not in much >> use anymore... > > Well if he's determined, he'll just return with how many sites run on PHP or > .NET or whatever. > > Numbers don't help for CF - what you need to demonstrate is how active and > passionate the community is. > > A recent post by Terry Ryan might help there: > http://www.terrenceryan.com/blog/post.cfm/dear-coldfusion-denier > > One specific point Terry makes: >> check out the list of ColdFusion conferences. >> A third of them are new conferences and have >> popped up over the past 3 years. > > > He's got another posting linked from that one, which has this "Cost of > Ownership" image: > http://www.terrenceryan.com/blog/assets/content/toc.png > > Basically showing that CF requires less training, less dev time and less > maintenance. > > > I think that sort of thing should be more useful than numbers. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:336532 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
