> Yes, and I had heard a rumor that Microsoft had bought a > coldfusion site and not converted it. Must have been the > winmag2000 site I guess.
No, MS doesn't own the win2000mag.com site; it's owned by Duke Publications, I believe. However, in the past, MS has purchased sites running all kinds of things, and left them alone. This was a sensible business strategy for their content providers. For a long time, I believe, Hotmail ran on non-Windows platforms. I do remember one CF site which was purchased by MS: SubmitIt, a search engine submission site (http://www.submitit.com/). It used CF (either 1.5 or 2.0) and Perl, if I recall correctly. MS purchased it and left it alone for quite a while. However, when they rebuilt it as part of their bCentral content, they rewrote a lot of the stuff using their own. There's still CF at work there now, though, it looks like. Go there now, and right on the front page, look at the "sign up now" links for their submission service: http://submitit.bcentral.com/system/siojoin.cfm And just to prove it a bit further: http://submitit.bcentral.com/system/Application.cfm But frankly, all this "who's using CF" stuff is largely a waste of time. Should you use it because MS chose not to rewrite something they purchased five years ago? Probably not - you should use it because it'll let you get a solution done better and quicker than the alternatives. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ voice: (202) 797-5496 fax: (202) 797-5444 ______________________________________________________________________ Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
