- Matt Small
----- Original Message -----
From: Jim Davis
To: CF-Community
Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2003 2:08 PM
Subject: Crappy Day for ColdFusion (subtitle: "Anybody need a developer?")
I had a few conversations that just made me sick. First 10 seconds of
background:
I'm in a fortune 500 company that was bought by a fortune 50 company two
years ago. We made heavy use of CF, the new company has standardized on
WebSphere and is pushing us in that direction with cattle prods. For
this reason we've been unable to upgrade CF past our current 4.5
version.
The arguments against upgrading have ranged from ridiculous to sublimely
stupid. For example:
1) We can't upgrade to MX because we have to focus on Java now.
2) There is no money for CF because we're looking at WebSphere (remember
that WebSphere runs 10-20 times the cost of CF, without hardware).
3) That's not the enterprise direction. We have to get our apps running
on WebSphere as soon as we can.
So last week I sent out an explanatory mail. It explained that the
reasons I've heard may be applicable to CF 4.5, but not to MX. It
described how CFMX is not a server, but rather a J2EE certified
application. I was eloquent on the fact that upgrading to MX would
allow us to run our existing apps on WebSphere immediately - at a
tremendous cost savings over rebuilding from scratch. I explored to
option to do this and still commit all new development to JSP on the
same platform with full interoperability between CFML and JSP.
As you might image I was completely ignored. Not one comment on the
substance of my message.
I went to some of the management to ask if they'd seen it. I got
several responses:
1) "ColdFusion is a rust-in-place technology here. We won't consider
it."
2) "If you're not up to speed in WebSphere by midyear you won't have
value to the company."
3) "I read it. We can't consider ColdFusion now: we have to focus on
Java."
So, generally speaking, I'm depressed. I remember when technical
decisions were made by technical people.
I'm going to stick it out as long as I can (and learn WebSphere)... but
I think I'll be looking for work soon.
Jim Davis
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