So we made an acquisition of a competitor over the summer and with it came their portal. We're both managed security services so we give customers a heads up of the intrusion detection we place on their networks and some other stuff like firewall monitoring). Meetings were had about integrating the two companies, the back-ends, data collection and the front-ends. Well, it turns out that they want to keep their portal but with the brand name of ours because it has better brand recognition. Ours is done in CF and Oracle, theirs in, get this, PL/SQL on Oracle 9i Application server (as in, write lots and lots of concatenation strings). It came down to the fact they have two dedicated PL/SQL folks for portal work as opposed to just me for CF.
What irritates me is that I've got to imagine it takes a lot longer to write HTML in PL/SQL and they're going to adapt theirs to the look and feel of the portal I created. And not only that but they don't use DB views because the cost plans can go askew if no-one's around to keep table stats fresh (true in their case), so all presentation, business and data logic is in the PL/SQL packages. Why use Oracle 9i AS if you're not going to do a J2EE infrastructure? At some point you just have to say feck it and let it go. There are other dev projects coming up with server side Java apps but I so do not want to work on web stuff (in this context) anymore. Kev ______________________________________________________________________ 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 Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
