Interesting thing on this subject - one of my clients is a high end accounting back office integration company who specifically sells Great Plains - as most of you know - probably - which had been bought by Microsoft.
They had required scheduled calls with all developers / companies who developed the sites which offered and link to great plains. I used ColdFusion - on the phone I was eventually passed to one of the lead architects that had basically forced himself on me - ( nicely - but annoying) that Microsoft would like to see me using .asp and I would benefit from it. - I had several calls from them asking if we had intentions of switching - ( we didn't ) He personally said - developer to developer - that they have been eating and breathing .net and asp there and it was a huge push to have all associated sites running their stuff. just a personal experience and call I had with them. Don't know what it's worth - but may be interesting to you. jay miller Dave Watts wrote: 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/ <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 <http://submitit.bcentral.com/system/siojoin.cfm> And just to prove it a bit further: http://submitit.bcentral.com/system/Application.cfm <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/ <http://www.figleaf.com/> voice: (202) 797-5496 fax: (202) 797-5444 ______________________________________________________________________ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.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
