People just go on what they hear. There is still a widely held perception "out there" that CF is bloated and slow and you can't do any serious production work with it. It took me six months to convince my boss to go with CF for our shopping cart, because he had that "CF sucks" attitude; now our sales are up like 50% since we launched the CF Fusebox site, mainly because we are so nimble, we can launch site improvements and features many times faster than with our previous MIVA cart *puke*.
Just as a rebuttal, my girlfriend recently ran across an old friend who is a programmer (mostly desktop stuff I think) and when she told him I was a CF programmer, he was impressed and said that he had heard that was the best web programming language out there. Weird though, it seems like CF inspires a "love it or hate it" kind of attitude. -- Josh ----- Original Message ----- From: "Crow T. Robot" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2006 9:18 AM Subject: grrrr.... >I just got off the phone with a IT company who manages the web server for > one of our clients. This client is pretty small, non-profit, and we're > just > doing a little ASP project with them. In the course of our conversation, > he > asked what other languages we use. I tell him CF, ASP.NET, ASP, and PHP. > His > reply to me was "You still use ColdFusion? What a piece of crap!". Of > course, I bristle any time I hear stuff like this, and I whoa'ed him up a > little. As we got deeper into the conversation, I found out that he was > basing his whole experience on a legacy CF5 server install that he did a > few > weeks ago for a client of his. I tried and tried to explain that he's > comparing apples to oranges when talking about modern CFMX vs. CF5, but he > just wouldn't hear it. I just wanted to strangle the guy. Why do IT > people > have such know-it-all attitudes when they clearly don't know what they are > talking about? Seems to only happen in our industry.can't let the other > guy > out-geek you, I guess. > > > > Bah - rant over. Just needed to get it out of my system. (had to do it > via > my alias since I'm not sure who'll read this in the future.) > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:260359 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
