I know I am late on responding to this. (I was out with 2 wisdom teeth... now they are out) I believe they said it'd be roughly 440 hrs worth of consulting. And I know how hard MS partners work. I used to be one. ;) I think the big thing is that I have never been more confident of my programming skills then I am right now. I have a feeling that I won't be so confident if I am forced to write everything in a brand new language, etc. I'm not a left brain whatsoever. I've always been more of a writer, historian, musician, visualist, etc., and so for me to start from square one with a new language, well, I guess I'm a little scared. I'll report back Friday evening after my day of shadowing a .NET guru :) Candace K. Cottrell, Web Developer The Children's Medical Center One Children's Plaza Dayton, OH 45404 937-641-4293 http://www.childrensdayton.org [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 5/22/2003 6:30:11 PM >>> Christian, that, is a fantastic answer. And I especially appreciate this point being taken into consideration: >>| If Microsoft is offering you free >>| software and learning materials, why not take them up on >>| it? As long as you understand that they are willing to >>| spend a relatively small amount of money on you in order to >>| make back many many times that amount once you have made a >>| significant time investment, then you really have nothing to lose. Because it is so true. I was going to do a general cost anaylsis of MS versus CF staff and time considerations, but I'm a little busy. The ROI on CF versus MS products is higher. I've proved it time and time again in my own business, over the last 5 years. Everyone else's mileage may vary. Also, that consulting figure ... What was it $60,000 worth? At how much an hour? How many people? And does that include time from the minute they wake-up and the minute they go to bed? Does it include meeting time? Because we all know MS consultants are actually working very very hard every single minute of that consulting time ;) $60,000 goes quick I'd imagine. I may use Outlook and Win2k, but I trust Micro$haft about as far as I can throw them. >>| -----Original Message----- >>| From: Christian Cantrell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>| Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2003 11:00 PM >>| To: CF-Community >>| Subject: CF_Enigma >>| >>| >>| Hi, Candace. I guess since I work for Macromedia, I should >>| be advising you to stay away from .NET and embrace >>| ColdFusion, however as a fellow developer, I would not >>| discourage you from learning other technologies. How would >>| we all know how good ColdFusion is if we couldn't compare >>| it to other platforms? >>| >>| So the issue is not so much whether you should expand your >>| knowledge as it is the fact that you are being forced to >>| choose between technologies. Your boss has put you in the >>| interesting positing of having to pick one path over the >>| other with no compromise at all. Considering the >>| circumstances, and how high the stakes seem to be, the only >>| advice I can give you is to go with whichever technology >>| you feel will enable to do your job most effectively and >>| efficiently. I come from a J2EE background, however I have >>| discovered that I can build web applications in a fraction >>| of the amount of time with ColdFusion, so CFMX is my >>| platform of choice. Since I'm using CFMX, I have the >>| luxury of falling back on Java when/if I need to, which is >>| something you might consider. If you decide you want to >>| stick with ColdFusion, you can expand your knowledge into >>| the J2EE world without having to sacrifice everything you >>| already know. I don't know what the job situation is like >>| in Atlanta, but I would guess there are more J2EE positions >>| available than .NET. >>| >>| Let me know if there is anything I (or Macromedia) can do >>| to help you make a decision. >>| >>| Christian Cantrell >>| Server Community Manager >>| http://www.macromedia.com/go/cantrell >>| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >>| ~~~~~~~~~| >>| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=5 >>| Subscription: >>| http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subsc ribe&forumid=5 Host with the leader in ColdFusion hosting. Voted #1 ColdFusion host by CF Developers. Offering shared and dedicated hosting options. www.cfxhosting.com/default.cfm?redirect=10481 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=2872.2701.5 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=5 Host with the leader in ColdFusion hosting. Voted #1 ColdFusion host by CF Developers. Offering shared and dedicated hosting options. www.cfxhosting.com/default.cfm?redirect=10481 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
