Oh, and the new XML stuff it Nice! That alone is worth the upgrade.
At 12:29 PM 4/29/02, you wrote:
>enhanced RegEx, CFCs, and error handling in CFSCRIPT are my 3 favorites. :)
>
>At 12:26 PM 4/29/02, you wrote:
>><with no sarcasm> Which features are so essential that I need to
>>upgrade?
>>
>>- Matt Small
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Matt Liotta [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>>Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 11:45 AM
>>To: CF-Talk
>>Subject: RE: CFMX performance (was RE: CF MX)
>>
>>No performance advantage really. You should upgrade for the new features
>>though.
>>
>>-Matt
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Matthew R. Small [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>>> Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 8:30 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
>>> > >
>>> >
>>> >
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
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