On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 5:47 AM, Sawyer, Edward <ed.saw...@unh.edu> wrote:
> I think it's partly a matter of cost, and some sort of idea of the manager > that more things are going the way of PHP these days. (WTF? Hard to know > where that is coming from). We pay for 2 enterprise licenses now (2 virtual > servers in a cluster, each with 4 virtual processors...), which is a fair > bit of $. Additionally there have been some performance issues with CF, > which I think is mostly a matter of poor coding on the part of previous > developers. We are also bringing up WordPress and Drupal as services for the > greater community, so those run under PHP, thus more efforts in that > direction. > Ditto what Peter said--you should really investigate OpenBD or Railo if it's a cost issue that's even partially driving this. Peter's right to point out what a lot of managers don't typically take into account, namely the opportunity cost of making a change like that. When you're porting things or your developers are having to spend time learning new skills, that's time you're not spending doing something more productive. That isn't to say it never makes sense to change technologies, but if it's a cost issue I hope they're taking the entire picture into account. Drupal and WordPress are great tools, but they're just that--tools. You can run those apps without having to change over entirely to PHP. We use MediaWiki for the OpenBD wiki because it's a great wiki, but that doesn't mean we're going to stop using CFML. ;-) If you're interested in learning more about OpenBD you can hit me off-list, and I'm sure Peter would be happy to discuss Railo with you. > (Matt, I took your Mach-II day-long class at CFUnited 2008, which is the > best thing I got out of that conference.) > Oh yeah--hi Ed! Sorry I didn't recognize the name from the original message. If there's anything I can do to help keep you on CFML and Mach-II, email me off list and I'll provide any ammo I can. -- Matthew Woodward m...@mattwoodward.com http://mpwoodward.posterous.com identi.ca/Twitter: @mpwoodward Please do not send me proprietary file formats such as Word, PowerPoint, etc. as attachments. http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
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