On 5/25/07, Dave Watts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Of course it is! It always has been. It's good for exactly > > > one thing - developing web applications. > > > > I'm going to take issue with that because pretty much all of > > the CF projects I've been involved with for the last few > > years have been middleware: web services, scheduled tasks and > > event gateways with hardly ever an actual web UI (beyond some > > minimal admin console). I suspect there's much more of that > > going on, hidden inside corporate firewalls, than we might > > imagine... > > I submit to you that (a) web services and other middleware are an integral > part of web applications, and (b) you are not representative of the typical > CF programmer, and those projects are not representative of the typical CF > project. > > Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software > http://www.figleaf.com/
I'd further submit that there's a little of "eating your own dogfood" when choosing software to build your corporate middleware when you're a vendor of software that enables corporate middleware... Like .NET was an option :) -- John Paul Ashenfelter CTO/Transitionpoint (blog) http://www.ashenfelter.com (email) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:279290 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
