On 5/24/07, Adam Churvis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It was really hard for us to tiptoe away from ColdFusion and toward ASP.NET > after all these years, but we just couldn't deny what was happening: > > * Most of the popular sites were either not written in ColdFusion, or were > trying to move away from it.
by who's scale? bank of america? victorias secret? > > * Most of the largest businesses didn't run on ColdFusion, and those that > did were in the process of moving to another platform. And don't count > Adobe; they switched to ColdFusion for obvious political reasons (how would > it have looked if they didn't eat their own dog food?). sometimes idiots with a lot of money, make bad choices. again, see my examples above. > The more we've moved into .NET, the better our business has been, and the > more we've been able to do for our clients. We still do some CFML (almost > entirely on BlueDragon.NET), but new projects are typically ASP.NET-based. thats killer for you guys. good stuff! but, as the geeks in the situation, you could steer your clients any way you wanted to. > If you want a glimpse of how far you can go with .NET, go to your local > bookstore and thumb all the way through a recent copy of MSDN magazine. > Then for the sake of comparison, thumb through a recent copy of CFDJ > Magazine (if you can find it on the magazine rack). Compare the content of > the two magazines, and ask yourself which one best represents the best > future for you as a professional developer. > Then go to Amazon.com and search for ASP.NET titles published within the > most recent three years (just ASP.NET; we're not even talking about the > other .NET-related technologies that businesses are clamoring for, like > SharePoint and Windows Presentation Foundation). Then do the same for > ColdFusion titles. i dont see how this matters... its just got a larger money machine behind it. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| ColdFusion MX7 by Adobe® Dyncamically transform webcontent into Adobe PDF with new ColdFusion MX7. Free Trial. http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion?sdid=RVJV Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:235475 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
