I'm currently going through the same thing, except my new IT director's
pushing for ASP and Java... ick...
If he'd suggest PHP, I'd be all for it since I know PHP intimately, (and
personally prefer it over CF, but that's strictly my opinion)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Dinowitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2000 10:29 AM
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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