Ouch! On 5/8/07, Will Swain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 > > > > > > > >
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