In my opinion, he heard that the other CTOs on the Golf Course said CF was
"junior" and, heaven forbid, costs money! This is a common problem. Don't
resist. You're skill set will be greatly improved, and he will be
accountable for the longer development times and issues with a great, but
not yet mature technology in PHP.
Jim
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2000 12:30 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: Another debate
As long as you write good code and follow all the security notes from the
Allaire security zone, there is no security problem. From the tone and
message of the email, he doesn't really care to hear the truth about it.
To be honest, PHP has its strengths, but its still a script based language
rather than a tag based one which means its slower to write than CF when
integrating into HTML and doing output. Its DB work isn't all to good and
the error handling is almost non-existent. If you look on the PHP site,
there's actually a rather informative comparison of the two on some
features.
If the boss wants to listen and add PHP to your companies skill set, then
I'd agree with him. If he just wants to dump all of the CF stuff for PHP,
then argue with him about it. Bring your proofs and back it up with the fact
that CF is accepted by the corporate industry while PHP isn't (yet).
> The new boss has arrived in my department and of course he wants everyone
to
> switch from the awesome and all mighty cold fusion to .... PHP. We do need
> some other strengths in our department for those clients who don't want us
> to host their application or don't have cf on their server, but, he wants
a
> complete switch. Here is a glimpse into his last email:
>
> "It could be argued that both technologies have their strengths and
> weaknesses. However, in the corporate IT department, CF is usually not an
> option due to cost and security problems. I realize that changing
> perceptions and old habits are sometimes difficult, but necessary.
> Especially in our industry (high-tech).
>
> The need to deliberate the issue further is a mute point."
>
> Does anyone have any opinions on his security problems comment? It seems
> that alliare is pretty good about getting patches up - or we have just
been
> lucky and not had any problems. And, would you agree that in the
corporate
> IT department cf is "usually" not an option?
>
> Thanks in advance for any input.
>
>
>
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