I would say tht UDF's alone were a good enough reason to go to CF 5. I love em and use em all the time :)
Tim Heald ACP/CCFD :) Application Development www.schoollink.net > -----Original Message----- > From: Matthew R. Small [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 11:30 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: RE: CFMX performance (was RE: CF MX) > > > So, in a small company like mine, where I have maybe 5 people using CF > at once on an intranet application, (I also use CF from a shared host) > there is no advantage to going to MX? I'm still waiting for a great > reason to upgrade to CF 5.0. > > - Matt Small > > -----Original Message----- > From: Matt Liotta [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 11:11 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: CFMX performance (was RE: CF MX) > > Yup, you're right. Well in that case on with the ensuing flame war. > > First the caveats; CFMX has not been tuned for performance yet according > to MM. > > With that aside, I have been working with Neo since the alpha days and > have seen it change quite a bit since then. During that time I have > learned that CFMX will have a performance threshold very close to that > of JSP. For those of you who don't know, JSP doesn't actually perform > that well. On a single server, a properly built CF 5 application would > blow away a properly built JSP application. This is a fact that can be > easily proved today. However, JSP is more scalable than CF 5. This is an > important distinction depending on what type of load your application is > planning on supporting. If you are a shared hosting provider, you will > be able to support less web applications on the same server than with CF > 5. If you maintain a small site that only uses a single server, you will > need more server resources to provide the same level of performance you > are used today with CF 5. > > With all that being said, if you currently run a web application that > depends on more than one CF server, CFMX is going to be great. Using > J2EE, you will be able to partition your application on top different > servers to increase its scalability. With a properly built CFMX > application you will be able to simply add more servers as needed. > > -Matt > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 7:44 AM > > To: CF-Talk > > Subject: RE: CF MX > > > > Jump over to the Neo forums on the beta site - Libby English of > > Macromedia : "You can now discuss all aspects of the new CF > release..." > > > > --- > > Billy Cravens > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Matt Liotta [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 9:39 AM > > To: CF-Talk > > Subject: RE: CF MX > > > > That information is NDA at this point. > > > > -Matt > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Bill Wheatley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 7:28 AM > > > To: CF-Talk > > > Subject: CF MX > > > > > > Now that i'm at a new job i need tow ork my bosses over to get them > to > > > upgrade from CF 4 (ugh) to cF MX. i need to find a page that shows > the > > > performance stats compared to older versions any ideas? > > > > > > > > > Bill Wheatley > > > Senior Database Developer > > > Ediets.com > > > Macromedia Certified Coldfusion Developer > > > 954.360.9022 X159 > > > > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists