Yea, exactly. I think that's what irked me most. On 11/14/06, Andy Matthews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > And the real problem is that he influences other people who might not know > CF. > > <!----------------//------ > andy matthews > web developer > certified advanced coldfusion programmer > ICGLink, Inc. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 615.370.1530 x737 > --------------//---------> > > -----Original Message----- > From: Crow T. Robot [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2006 11:18 AM > To: CF-Talk > 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 ) > > > > >
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