From: Charles E. Heizer1 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Trust me, I really don't want to jump ship but when people keep whispering PHP/ASP etc. to management, and the product cost is, well free. It makes it a really hard sell. We have also had,in the past a really hard time finding good quality CF developers. --------------------------
Others have mention this already but PHP and ASP are only free if you don't value your time and you prefer to write larger amounts of code. Granted, it's hard to sale this to management sometimes with the prices printed right there, but you could do a simple code off. Do a set of code in ASP, PHP and ColdFusion that simply calls a datasource and outputs the data. This is a very basic operation that we all do and it doesn't take much to appreciate the simplicity of CF in this example. Now magnify that difference over weeks, months or years. The time alone you're saving should easy balance out the price. Now finding experienced CF developers, yes, the field is tight. Here in Atlanta they work for the companies like UPS, Alltel, Federal Reserve, etc. Hardly a dying language, but yes experienced Cfers are expensive and in short supply. Good news for all of us :) But frankly I think that people forget how quickly they themselves probably learned CF. Don't go around looking for a CF guy, just pull some CIS/CS majors straight out of college. Most of them now have basic Java/OO/XML experience. They probably haven't heard of CF and wouldn't know to look for a job in that area, but learning CF with this background takes very little time at all. Plus you'll get them on the cheap :) John Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED] 770.337.8363 www.FusionLink.com - ColdFusion and Flex hosting Now offering ColdFusion 8 Enterprise hosting FREE Subversion hosting ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Enterprise web applications, build robust, secure scalable apps today - Try it now ColdFusion Today ColdFusion 8 beta - Build next generation apps Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:284990 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
