> You might ask yourself the question, what am I going to respond to a > customer saying "Why would I pay for ColdFusion if I can get A, B, or C > for free?". Only in specific cases you can throw it on ColdFusion > specific functionality, but even then boxing up against free publicity > marketed languages is very hard for an Account Manager. > > Just to clear things up :) I know this issue pops up regularly, but it > isn't something you have to put away beneath the soil. I think it needs > attention, but that attention is expensive, and requires strong product > strategy. :)
I tend to think of Coldfusion as a productivity API for Java. You can do things in coldfusion you can't do with java alone (take a cfc and add a function to it at runtime) and some things that are just faster in cfml (you can get a hold of XML way easier, and a slew of other things - let alone the new stuff in 7) Companies don't seem to mind buying add-on COM objects, php modules, java charting APIs - my point is that CFML is a language unto it's self to be sure, but it can also be looked at as an augmentation to java, and when looked at it that way it might be an easier sell. Meaning you can do most everything in JSP and java (or someother free language), but it takes a larger amout of time and effort to make a web service or parse and XML file compared to the 2 or 3 lines of code in cfml. If you say, "hey it'll take me 2 days to do it in language A or 2 seconds to do in CFMX" then figure in your salary... I know it's been said before, but it's true. There's my wooden nickel. -- ~Blog~ http://www.robrohan.com ~The cfml plug-in for eclipse~ http://cfeclipse.tigris.org ~open source xslt IDE~ http://treebeard.sourceforge.net ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Logware (www.logware.us): a new and convenient web-based time tracking application. Start tracking and documenting hours spent on a project or with a client with Logware today. Try it for free with a 15 day trial account. http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=67 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:194014 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
