Well put Rick. Yves
On 5/8/07, Rick Root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Here's the letter I wrote.... > > ---------------- > > Mr. Babcock, > > Your recent article "Restore Backbone To Brittle Sites" seems to imply > that Coldfusion only runs on Windows, IIS, and SQL Server: > > "TripHomes originally was built using ColdFusion, a Web site > development tool that runs on Windows and depends on Microsoft's > Internet Information Server Web server and SQL Server database." > > Of course, Coldfusion does not RELY on any of those things. At most, > it typically relies on JRun, but will work with a variety of J2EE > servers. It runs quite nicely on other platforms (Solaris and Linux, > among others), and even on Windows supports the use of OTHER web > servers, like Apache. > > I suspect, but nobody will ever know, that the site would have been > just fine on Coldfusion, but as often happens with sites that grow > over time, "Best practices" fall apart. > > It's easy to "rebuild a site" in any language and make it perform > better than a site that was built over time. Heck, you could take a > web site build in .NET over the last few years, and rebuild it today > and make it better. > > Of course, I'm a coldfusion developer, so I take issue with the > implications your article makes, that coldfusion is unreliable (it's > not), and that it relies on Windows and IIS (it does not) > > Thanks for your time. > > > Rick Root > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Deploy Web Applications Quickly across the enterprise with ColdFusion MX7 & Flex 2 Free Trial http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:277256 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
