> it's clear that that's what they are, and not hard knowledge
> based on hands-on experience with the actual technology
> involved.
If you can provide the hard knowledge of which you speak, I would certainly
welcome it. My experience so far has been that generally, the vendor's own
JDBC drivers have usually been more reliable than DataDirect's drivers. I
have very little significant experience with ADO.NET providers in production
using Oracle, so I really can't say one way or the other how well they work,
or which is better.
My point was simply that, once you start introducing other vendors'
products, you begin to lose the compatibility advantage you mentioned
earlier. You seemed to agree with that yourself in one of your responses to
Adam.
For what it's worth, your products seem to be worth a look. I don't have any
significant experience with BlueDragon in production use, but I've used
previous NewAtlanta products before and have been very satisfied with them.
I think that being able to deploy CFML on .NET is pretty impressive, and
you're obviously filling a niche that Macromedia is unwilling or unable to
fill. I would certainly consider the use of your products, especially the
.NET version, on a per-project basis.
However, I think it's a bit early to make guesses about the benefits of
BlueDragon.NET vs CFMX on Windows, which is what I think you were doing in
your original post. They may have been good guesses, but that remains to be
seen. I'll concede that the .NET Framework may outperform the Java VM on
Windows, but do you have any benchmarks that show if (or how much) this
translates into better performance for typical CF apps? Most CF apps I've
seen have not had performance problems with how long the CFML takes to run,
as much as the typical problems of most web applications - database
bottlenecks, inadequate caching.
Finally, my crack about drinking the KoolAid has more to do with Microsoft
than you - Microsoft's big sales argument has always been the tight
integration between their products, which is great when you want to use only
their products, but not so great when you want to choose other vendors'
products, and even less great when you encounter a problem with that
integration that only they can solve (and they choose not to).
When will your .NET product be available? According to your site, only the
"technology preview" is available now.
Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software
http://www.figleaf.com/
phone: 202-797-5496
fax: 202-797-5444
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