Thanks... 1/ Will CF8 have equal or better integration with .NET compared to Bluedragon.Net?
2/ My main reason for consider Bluedragon.NET over CFMX is not due to Flash Remoting but rather to my main concern of .NET touted as being far superior in handling significant loads and simultaneous requests than CFMX... the reason being that if my Flash Remoting app becomes very popular with several thousand people using at the same time it sounds like BD.NET with its integration with .NET framework will be far more robust and able to handle the loads. Ignoring costs for the time being, I personally don't care which application server I use, I just wan't to know that my app is using the most robust tools and that it won't slow down or crash under very heavy load. I do not want to start a CF vs ASP.NET war, but my concern for using CFMX was sparked by another thread on this forum where Tim Uzzanti who is an experienced employee of a large webhost who wrote.. --------------------------- Tim Uzzanti: (http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/thread.cfm/threadid:37076#187251) "If you believe CF can handle the same traffic loads that .NET can handle, then you are completely confused on the technologies and their infrastructure. I have no idea if 75% of fortune 100% companies use CF, I would love to see some documentation for that, but the Fortune 100 companies ARE NOT the Top 100 sites on the Internet either! Asking someone who maintains and manages 10,000 hosted applications on Cold Fusion and someone who manages thousands of .NET applications would probably give you a pretty good opinion of what they see? Is it in my BEST interest to tell a customer not to use CF, or is it in my best interest to suggest what might be the best technologies from my experiences on their requirements? Someone mentioned ediet.com which has a traffic ranking of around 280,000 and in comparison CrystalTech is around 23,000. Microsoft.com which is in the top 10 is using ASP.NET and Dell.COM which is in the top 100 is also using ASP.NET Regarding the back end of Cold Fusion: CFMX is much better than CF5 but still has many limitations and quirks that we have see and deal with every day. I am not saying that CF doesnât have the ability to grow with larger sites because it has features like the ability to cluster machines and the classes are compiled etc. What I am saying is, if you would like to build an application that can last longer on certain hardware or run more optimally, CF is not the way to go! Cold Fusion MX out of the box has a setting to support no more than 10 simultaneous requests at one time. Macromedia suggestions that you never exceed 40 and this isnât optimal for a large scale sites. There are other settings and issues from a server administration standpoint that hinder CFMX from out performing .NET There are other factors that one needs to think about when writing an application. Think about the ability to use Threads in .NET. Depending on your application, sitting and processing 10 requests back to back may take 5 minutes but if you had the ability to run the 10 tasks concurrently you may be able to respond back to the customer in 30 seconds. You have to realize, .NET isnât just a web based language, it is a Development language for desktop and server applications as well." --------------------------- Therefore if CF8 has the same or better integration with .NET as BD.NET then maybe worthwhile to wait till CF8 is released? any opinions... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| CF 8 â Scorpio beta now available, easily build great internet experiences â Try it now on Labs http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm?e=labs_adobecf8_beta Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:280555 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
