I really hate to see this discussion degenerate into a "Religious War"
Actually, each product has its place in the grand scheme of things. We must recognize that not all web applications are on a grand scale, nor are they all top end. Most don't even need to be. Some folks and organizations of necessity, must start on a small scale, and feature limited software has a place here, just as CF Express had years back. As the site owner grows, so does his/her/their needs and the migration to a more feature rich server product is a cost effective path, especially when the developer does not have to learn a new technology, or at least does not have to reinvent the wheel to take advantage of all the rich features they will be using. First things first, and that is what MM is doing with Red Sky, and that is improving their product so as to require less technical expertise on the part of server admins to install and use their product and to improve its stability on a wide variety of platforms. The New Atlanta product, while not a CF clone, already does this, with some differences. It has already been mentioned that the majority of CFML users are still on the CF 4.5 (and I know of some still powering web sites with CF version 1.0) arena - they will be checking out the cost effectiveness, of not only newer hardware, but the installation, migration costs, stability issues and feature set of the technology they migrate to. In either case, the newer product must be compelling in not only its technology advance, feature set, but simplicity to use. Any major IT department would not consider moving to the J2EE platforms unless there is a compelling reason to do so. The decision makers must consider what they will get for their buck. The smaller enterprise must consider this twice, so to speak. Not every one is an IBM, or an Amazon. ====================================== Stop spam on your mail server, use our gateway! For hosting solutions http://www.clickdoug.com ISP rated: http://www.forta.com/cf/isp/isp.cfm?isp_id=772 ====================================== If you are not satisfied with my service, my job isn't done! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sean A Corfield" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, June 14, 2003 8:45 PM Subject: Re: ColdFusion 5 Trial | On Saturday, Jun 14, 2003, at 08:09 US/Pacific, Charlie Arehart wrote: | > Right, BlueDragon currently lacks support for Verity, Crystal Reports, | > CFASSOCIATE, CFAUTHENTICATE, CFIMPERSONATE, CFAPPLET, and CFGRID tags. | > If | > you need those, BD is not currently a solution for you. | | There's also quite a few attributes on other tags that are not | supported - see the compatibility guide on New Atlanta's website. Also | note that there are several features not available in the free server | edition that are only available in the JX edition (some features) or | the full J2EE edition. | | For example, the free edition does not support: cfexecute, cfgraph, | cfschedule, cfservlet, cfservletparam or cfwddx and none of the | editions support cfobject type="COM". See: | | http://www.newatlanta.com/products/bluedragon/product_info/ | cfml_tag_support.cfm | | There's a myriad incompatibilities that may or may not be important to | developers including: | - cfapplication always requires name= | - cfquery does not auto-escape single quotes | (I suspect a lot of CF5 code relies on this) | - cfregistry does not actually access the Windows registry | - cookies cannot be created by cfset - you must use cfcookie | | 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
