<http://teratech.com/blog/index.cfm/2007/5/30/ColdFusion-is-Alive-Partial-survey-results>Some of you may have read the Computer World article <http://www.intergovworld.com/article/d402e6590a010408018f5a04bd1aa789/pg1.htm> listing ColdFusion as one of 10 dead languages but how do you convince your clients that CF is the right solution? People have been telling me what arguments have been working on the street. Let me know your experiences at the survey at http://mdcfug.org/surveys/survey.cfm (if you have already taken the survey please don't take it again!).
Here are the partial results to date on this below. <http://teratech.com/blog/index.cfm/2007/5/30/ColdFusion-is-Alive-Partial-survey-results> I am giving a talk at CFUNITED-07 on "Selling ColdFusion to Clients" <http://cfunited.com/go/topics.cfm#topic-1322> that will cover what strategies to use for selling ColdFusion to clients and how to deal with common objections that clients have. I will give the full survey results there. What issues have you heard when selling a ColdFusion solution to clients? * Cost of CF server 83% * Not made by Microsoft 41% * CF slow 33% * Not a real language 33% * Not Object Oriented 25% * Not secure 25% * Other 33% What arguments have you made for using ColdFusion on a project? * Rapid development 91% * Easy to maintain code 66% * Made by Adobe 75% * 11 years old 66% * Lots of built in functions 66% * Open standards 25% * Multiple vendor support 25% * Other 8% More background at http://teratech.com/blog/index.cfm/2007/5/30/ColdFusion-is-Alive-Partial-survey-results -- Due to TeraTech's growth we are seeking winning sales people to sell custom software. For more details: http://www.teratech.com/go/about-us/jobs&jobsaction=detail&jobid=3 Michael Smith, TeraTech, Inc 405 E Gude Dr Ste 207, Rockville MD 20850 Voice: +1-301-424-3903 x110 Fax:301-762-8185 Web: http://www.teratech.com/ Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 66057682 Winner in CFDJ awards Best Consulting. Member Team Fusebox. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| ColdFusion MX7 by Adobe® Dyncamically transform webcontent into Adobe PDF with new ColdFusion MX7. Free Trial. http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion?sdid=RVJV Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:279663 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
