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Come on folks we need to remember that ColdFusion isn't *just* a
programming language; there's way much more to it than that. Seriously,
go write some code to connect to Microsoft Exchange to integrate with
your inbox, calendar, contacts and task list then come back and talk to
me about costs.
What if I don't need to write some code to connect to MS Exchange? While
I agree that CF is much more than a programming language, providing a
whole host of libraries/tags out of the box and a simple management
interface, Adobe seem to concentrating on selling CF as an alternative
to typical J2EE web development. CF has some serious competition outside
enterprise web development, most notably with ruby on rails. Adobe
recognise this themselves, and seem to see it as an opportunity rather
than a threat - they even provide a Flex SDK for rails.
What does it mean for CF though? I'm not sure how alone we are, but most
of the work we do involves baby sitting a relational database and maybe
importing from and exporting to remote systems. Ruby on rails is a
pretty compelling alternative to CF for this kind of development. We've
held off using other development platforms until now because we felt
we'd end up sacrificing either productivity or code maintainability, but
developing in rails is unbelievably fast and clean (I'm speaking from
experience, we're developing our second commercial rails app at the
moment).
Combine all that with increasing prices for CF and I can't see us ever
upgrading to CF8. We just don't need it.
Mark
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