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From: Larry C. Lyons [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 26 November 2003 19:32
To: CF-Community
Subject: Re: Crappy Day for ColdFusion (subtitle: "Anybody need a
developer?")
That sucks. It seems that what's occuring is corporate group think. It may
be time to jump ship.
larry
At 02:08 PM 11/26/2003, you wrote:
>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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