RE: Business Case for a 4.5 -> 7 upgrade

2005-02-11 Thread Calvin Ward
There's also this: http://www.macromedia.com/software/coldfusion/productinfo/product_editions/f p_frameset.html - Calvin -Original Message- From: Duncan I Loxton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 6:17 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Business Case for a 4.5

Re: Business Case for a 4.5 -> 7 upgrade

2005-02-10 Thread Duncan I Loxton
Thanks everyone for your enormous amount of help. I have a decent document now with a lot of information on 4.5 and the changes that have been made through till 6. We are a real estate company and our cf apps manage 5 websites, and the internal listing management system is on cf 4.5 too. We stru

Re: Business Case for a 4.5 -> 7 upgrade

2005-02-10 Thread Tim Buntel
More than 20 times faster... http://macromedia.com/software/coldfusionmx61/whitepapers/pdf/6_1/cfmx61_per formancebrief.pdf compares 4.5 to 6.1 - we should have the ColdFusion MX 7 performance brief out soon (it's as fast or faster than 6.1) Tim Tim Buntel Sr. Product Manager Macromedia

RE: Business Case for a 4.5 -> 7 upgrade

2005-02-10 Thread Calvin Ward
nd Unicode. - Calvin -Original Message- From: Simon Horwith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 4:03 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Business Case for a 4.5 -> 7 upgrade Many people have already responded to your post - and all of their reasons are valid. Based on wha

Re: Business Case for a 4.5 -> 7 upgrade

2005-02-10 Thread Simon Horwith
Many people have already responded to your post - and all of their reasons are valid. Based on what you've said, I can tell you that I'll verify all of the reasons you wanted verified, except for the "development time decreased" reason... that may or may not be true depending on what you want

Re: Business Case for a 4.5 -> 7 upgrade

2005-02-10 Thread Jared Rypka-Hauer - CMG, LLC
The availability of object orientation in CF, the fact that the apps run as Java bytecode after being converted, better error handling, better/faster/cooler forms generation, no more C++ runtime compiled pages for a tremendous performance increase, much-updated database drivers, substantial improve

Re: Business Case for a 4.5 -> 7 upgrade

2005-02-09 Thread Rick Root
Duncan I Loxton wrote: > > Are there any other really good reasons (from a Chief Exec level) that > would be great to convince them to change? Maintainability. And, you might find that, if the time comes, finding a developer willing to do be stuck doing CF 4.5 work might be hard =) -- No vir

Re: Business Case for a 4.5 -> 7 upgrade

2005-02-09 Thread Jon Austin
4.5 = old and busted MX = much better Seriously though, 4.5 is quite a few major releases behind. The fact that MM do not support 4.5 anymore should be reason enough. But as you mentioned, if you app does a lot of reporting, they can have much prettier graphs and PDF documents. On Thu, 10 Feb 2

RE: Business Case for a 4.5 -> 7 upgrade

2005-02-09 Thread Steven Erat
> Now we run our internal mission critical app on 4.5, our intranet on > 6.1 and 5 odd websites on 4.5. We have CF server crashes more than > you can imagine, and I hope 7 will be able to go some way to helping > us out. Can you be very specific about the crashes? In CFMX 6.x, 7 you don't have

Business Case for a 4.5 -> 7 upgrade

2005-02-09 Thread Duncan I Loxton
Hi everyone, I have taken the opportunity to strike on the new version of CFMX and get the ailing company I work for to drag themselves into the new century with a spanking new version of CF. This means getting the money out of the Board and convincing them that its worth it, by means of a busine