Agreed Mark, we just completed a 15-month engagement porting a legacy OS/2-DB2 accounting application to ColdFusion 50. This app records all piping and meters for the Gas Company, the territory is Southern California from Bakersfield through Los Angeles to the San Diego border for all piping in the streets and all meters on every building; residential and commercial property and this record along with interim transactions is active for 10 years from the first pipe being laid. Along the way there are many convoluted accounting calculations all of which are handled outside the database; so in the new app ColdFusion does that. The new application was successfully launched and the client is very happy and this is a big application.
Kind Regards - Mike Brunt Webapper Services LLC Web Site http://www.webapper.com Blog http://www.webapper.net Webapper <Web Application Specialists> -----Original Message----- From: mark brinkworth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 4:31 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: OT: MM Suprises Wall Street - Can more be done? If done right ColdFusion is more than capable of handling large scale and secure applictions. The key is doing it right, but this is no different than ASP, and Java. Training and Code Reviews are key here. Cheers > I am sure no one could have sent this better. I just > thought I would add > my .02 cents to this - > I think Cold Fusions biggest blemish is that it's > too easy. It's an easy > tag based environment. Anyone can do it - that sure > means it can't > handle large scale or secure applications. > > just what I see. > > Lincoln Milner wrote: > > >I would be cautious with the advice for developers > to become multi-skilled. In a perfect world, I > would be able to do a task in PHP, Perl, CF, ASP or > Java, but in the real world my head would explode > knowing everything there is to know about that. > Plus you stretch yourself too thin if you try to be > everything to everyone. > > > >I think the key here is that CF is starting to be a > bigger player, not because of the improved > community support (there were a lot of us who used > CF when it was Allaire's baby), but the fact that > Macromedia can put more into getting it known out > there in the big bad world of competition. That > being said, Microsoft loves they're idea of > "competition," and their name is much more > prevalent, so when a not so tech-savvy person wants > a dynamic portal for the company, the people who say > Microsoft _whatever_ will probably get noticed more > than someone who says Macromedia ColdFusion. > > > >We need to start touting good works done in CF, and > show what it can do for a client looking for a > dynamic content web site. If memory serves, CF > holds a slight advantage in price, but that cannot > be twisted to imply lack of feature or > functionality. > > > >For CF to dominate, we need to show what it can do, > how well it can do it, and then be able to answer > the question, "Why is this better than ASP (or > ASP.NET)?" It's an uphill battle, but one I think > this community and MM are willing to fight. > > > >Lincoln T. Milner > >Senior Application Programmer/Analyst > >Department of Health Evaluation Sciences > >Pennsylvania State University > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq 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 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
