> It's a cost/benefit ratio thing. CF is expensive, the past 
> owners have not been customer/user friendly and it has a 
> lousy editor (DW).

You're free to use whatever editor you want, you know.

> If PHP existed back when CF 2 or 3 existed, there would be no 
> discussion, CF would not currently exist.

PHP 3 was released in 1998, after a public beta in mid-1997:
http://us2.php.net/history

Cold Fusion 3 was released in 1997:
http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/special/birthday/

I suppose if PHP 5 was available in 1997, maybe it would have wiped CF off
the face of the earth. Of course, if I went back in time with modern
weaponry, I could've kicked some serious ass, a la "A Connecticut Yankee in
King Arthur's Court":

http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccer-new2?id=TwaYank.sgm&images=images/mo
deng&data=/texts/english/modeng/parsed&tag=public&part=44&division=div1
"Within ten short minutes after we had opened fire, armed resistance was
totally annihilated, the campaign was ended, we fifty-four were masters of
England. Twenty-five thousand men lay dead around us."

Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software
http://www.figleaf.com/

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