Jim, Well said. I'd love to know where you get your statements on the growth of CF usage. Is this among bigger companies, or in certain areas? Are there any surveys out there?
Judith From: Jim Davis To: CF-Community Sent: Monday, November 04, 2002 9:29 PM Subject: RE: My last CF site? > > It sounds like what you were saying is that lower-cost > > options have become more attractive to you in a smaller-scale > > setting, and you don't feel like we're addressing that shift, > > but instead developing more support for enterprise uses of CF. > > > > Did I get the gist right? > > > > -Vern > > Pretty much, I suppose you could say that CF has lost it's > traditional advantages of fast dev time, community support > etc. and up against a free product it's a no brainer. PHPs > major drawback was the lack of a good editor, there seem to > be a few OK ones about now though (although nothing to > compare with CF Studio), ironically DWMX seems to be as good > as it gets for PHP at the moment. I like PHP but it's still got nothing on CF as far as ease of development goes. CF stills wins that battle hands down. In my opinion of course. PHP community support is great (and for an open-source tool pretty much required). But CF's community support has never been stronger and is continuously one of the best in the business: others may be larger, but very few (perhaps none) have the cohesiveness of the CF community. I suppose what I'm saying is that PHP DOES, absolutely does, have all the things you've mentioned. But the assertion that because IT does means that CF has "lost" is just sloppy reasoning. Both (or any number of) products can have the same advantages. The simple fact is that CF usage is growing wildly. Most of the sales of CFMX this year have been from new customers. It is a paid product and will continue to be a paid product (unless somebody comes up with a corporately attractive open-source model). I personally think that it's telling that even costing as much as it does it's still popular and gaining popularity quickly. PHP is gaining popularity as well - perhaps because it's free, but there's definitely other reasons. The fact that both are gaining users simply says to me that both are damn fine products. If people just wanted free they would have stayed with PERL and Java. And if free really was all that mattered CF just wouldn't be doing so darn well. Jim Davis ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=5 Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com
