Here's a new feature article on CIO Insight about MySpace.com: http://www.cioinsight.com/article2/0,1540,2084842,00.asp?kc=COQFTEMNL012307EOAD
Sometimes it's the things like these paragraphs that make me wonder what a real marketing/(re)education plan could do for the ColdFusion community (We need something to counteract statements like these). 'Almost immediately, MySpace saw that the ASP.NET programs ran much more efficiently, consuming a smaller share of the processor power on each server to perform the same tasks as a comparable ColdFusion program. According to CTO Whitcomb, 150 servers running the new code were able to do the same work that had previously required 246. Benedetto says another reason for the performance improvement may have been that in the process of changing software platforms and rewriting code in a new language, Web site programmers reexamined every function for ways it could be streamlined. Eventually, MySpace began a wholesale migration to ASP.NET. The remaining ColdFusion code was adapted to run on ASP.NET rather than on a Cold-Fusion server, using BlueDragon.NET, a product from New Atlanta Communications of Alpharetta, Ga., that automatically recompiles ColdFusion code for the Microsoft environment.' Maybe if they had just gotten some skilled CF developers to look at their code they could have avoided the MS approach all together and kept the content in the language we all know and love. No offense to Vince and the guys at NA, but a .cfm page that just includes an ASP page isn't CF. Thousands of executives, with little to no clue, received a link to this article in their inbox today. The article told them that ColdFusion was twice as slow as .NET and required twice the hardware (we know that's not necessarily true, but that's what they'll take away from it.) How do we continue to battle these perceptions and misconceptions without some help? -- Cutter ____________ http://blog.cutterscrossing.com "The Past is a Memory The Future a Dream But Today is a Gift That's why they call it The Present" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 Experience Flex 2 & MX7 integration & create powerful cross-platform RIAs http:http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:267414 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
