> How do we continue to battle these perceptions and > misconceptions without some help?
The short answer is, you can't, other than submitting your own article topics to these trade magazines. If you have a big success with ColdFusion, publicize it! The real problem with these sorts of articles is that they're never going to be written in a way that sheds a bad light on the project in question, because no one wants to publicize that. No one's going to sign off on "A poorly-written program in language x was rewritten well in language y", especially if you were responsible for the poorly-written program in the first place. Nevertheless, any CIO worth his salt will, well, take this type of article with a grain of salt. And, I wouldn't be surprised if BlueDragon put a lot of effort into making that migration successful. If so, kudos to them. If you're the underdog, though, you have to do these things to sell your product successfully; Adobe, on the other hand, doesn't. You know Avis' old slogan, right? "We're #2, so we try harder." (Or something like that, I'm not exactly sure.) If you want Adobe to do this, you should ask yourself how much more you'd be willing to pay for the product, to make that happen. And, finally, it is entirely possible that BlueDragon.NET does, in fact, perform better on Windows than ColdFusion does. After all, it's just another ..NET language, essentially, and Microsoft has paid big bucks to make .NET work very well on Windows. ColdFusion can certainly perform more than adequately on Windows, as many high-traffic CF sites demonstrate, and it brings other things to the table that BlueDragon.NET doesn't. And, of course, it's not limited to Windows, so you can pick up some nice beefy Solaris boxes and scale up, rather than scaling out - who wants to manage 150+ servers for one application, anyway? (Before anyone jumps on me for this, I do realize that the Java version of BlueDragon is available on other platforms. I'm not trying to debate the comparative merits of the products, actually.) Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ Fig Leaf Software provides the highest caliber vendor-authorized instruction at our training centers in Washington DC, Atlanta, Chicago, Baltimore, Northern Virginia, or on-site at your location. Visit http://training.figleaf.com/ for more information! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:267420 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
