Domino was discussed in another post. Web Sphere is basically your standard J2EE environment with a lot of hooks into other IBM products (including Domino).
What type of business portal are we looking at here? Are we interfacing with ERP, Data warehouses, or other company wide systems or is it just a content management system? If it is the latter, something like CF could be 'enough' to get the job done. If it is the former there will be a large number of interfaces to work with, which is where the strengths of a J2EE server come in allowing you to seperate presentation, business logic and data layers and enable you to allocate developers with the strengths in each area to get their job done most efficiently. You should still consider running CF for your presentation layer as it now runs on top of Websphere and there could be considerable development timescale benefits to using it. Adam > -----Original Message----- > From: James Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 11 October 2002 14:04 > To: CF-Talk > Subject: CF -v- Domino > > > I have a client who has asked me if I can help him with a project. > > He is planning a Business Portal site and would like my help - the only > thing I know at this stage is that the developers he has talked to are > proposing doing the site with 'Lotus Domino' and or on 'IBM Web Sphere > server'. > > Does anyone have any idea how and why he should be using CF instead as I > have no experience with either of the above products. > > -- > Jay > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/cf_talk FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm
