I think ASP/PHP do have cheaper hosting, and the whole selling point is that it's free. The fact that it will take longer to develop an app is not immediately clear, and neither is that fact that ASP/PHP code is more complicated and therefore will have more bugs.
ASP also probably performs better then CF. From what I hear, Bluedragon ..NET performs better then CF, and doesn't have the memory problems that CF does. Also if you want to have any sort of load balanced environment, I believe ASP has it built in somewhere (haven't really looked into it), and it's free, while for CF you have to shell out $12000 (2 Enterprise Licenses). Even if you have a fairly low traffic site, but you would like to have a load balanced environment, it's going to cost you a lot of money to get there. (If you need session replication at least). Also, from what I've been told, session replication doesn't work reliably with CF, although I have not experienced problems myself. Another issue is that it doesn't scale easily. Not that CF can't scale, but if I have an a CF App that cost me $x to develop, and a ASP.NET app that cost me $2x to develop, if I need to scale it out with multiple servers, at some point the cost of the licenses for the new servers outweigh the cost of developing the app in the first place. The fact that you can run CF on linux and forego windows licensing costs offsets this somewhat, but there's still a significant difference. This is most likely why MySpace is moving towards .NET. I don't think PHP has any sort of session management, so it's not even a contender in the enterprise world. Personally, I don't know PHP or ASP.NET, but I should probably start learning them. Russ > -----Original Message----- > From: Doug Brown [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 10:30 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: Anyone interested in Railo hosting? > > Just a side note, or question...What reasons do people think that asp/php > has the stronghold on web development, and what can be done to make CF > just > as popular? > > A. Better performing code > B. Cheaper development > C. Cheaper hosting > D. Other (Explain) > > > Doug > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:269000 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
