I had an IT consultant tell me, in a meeting with our mutual client, that ColdFusion was built on ASP. Actually, they insisted, even when I put them straight. It got to the point where it was a little embarassing for everyone. He was like a dog with a bone.
Remarkable, and to think he was charging them £900 a day for his 'expertise' -----Original Message----- From: Kevin Aebig [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 08 May 2007 17:04 To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Lack of CF understanding: Info Week Fiberglass.... no wait... Altima... ugh, I'm I can't decide. !k -----Original Message----- From: Billy Cox [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2007 8:01 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Lack of CF understanding: Info Week Rick, I can offer this insight. A couple of years ago, a client (who had obviously been schmoozed by a Typo3 evangelist) asked me to explain why ColdFusion was better than Typo3. This of course is like asking which is better, fiberglass or a Nissan Altima. The difference between applications and the underlying technology is lost on non-developers. Some people profit from this ignorance. The question is whether you want to fight the darkness or simply join in the profiteering. Kudos to you for attempting to set the record straight. -Billy Cox -----Original Message----- From: Rick Root [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2007 7:32 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Lack of CF understanding: Info Week 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 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Macromedia ColdFusion MX7 Upgrade to MX7 & experience time-saving features, more productivity. http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion?sdid=RVJW Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:277349 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
