On Saturday, Jun 14, 2003, at 18:00 US/Pacific, Jim Davis wrote: > Unfortunately I'm pretty sure. My company (New England Financial) was > actually bought by MetLife. Met is heavily IBM-centric and is > following > the IBM "How to deploy web applications" handbook step-by-step. > > Our (currently ColdFusion) apps are being sun-setted in favor of Web > Sphere applications being built mostly by other areas. We are merely > support for those efforts and not in a position to effect much change.
Well, point them at IBM's own website where ColdFusion MX is promoted by IBM: http://www-3.ibm.com/software/webservers/coldfusionmx/ Point out that it is Java Verified: http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/2003-06/sunflash.20030611.3.html > This another thing that I've talked about for a while, the double-edged > sword: CFML is so easy that it's hard to learn. Adequate results come > so quickly that mastery (or even moderate complexity) is only rarely > attained. The Java community is pushing very hard to make Java "easier" - the big drive behind JSTL, JSF and J2SE 1.5 ("Tiger") is ease of development. So even the Java community recognize the benefit of the ease of use that ColdFusion MX brings. Sean A Corfield -- http://www.corfield.org/blog/ "If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive." -- Margaret Atwood ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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 Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
