I can understand your comments, but that's not the case at all. They are looking for an agencies that can work the marketing and branding perspective. The development would be a very small peice of the puzzle which is an point I plan on making clear.
We don't own our CF servers. We utilize a hosting company. >A more important question might be why is your company outsourcing the >development of their site when they have an existing development staff? > >It could be that they don't respect, or trust, your team enough to allow you >to do the work, or contribute to the discussion? If they're willing to >outsource, then it's unlikely that they're going to listen to your >arguments. I've run into this before and it's extremely frustrating. > >Either way, your best argument will probably come if you own your own CF >servers. "We've already invested in ColdFusion, so why change?". > > >andy > >Our company, a large nationwide organization is creating an RFP to redo our >entire site from scratch for agnecies to review. The marketing folks are >asking the agencies to recommend a application platform as a part of the >RFP. I know most agencies use ..net or php, but that will be for their >advantage and not our existing CF staff. > >I need some guidance from someone that's been down this road before. I don't >want us to switch technologies just beacuse it's what the agencies use. Why >aren't there more agencies using CF? > >D ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;203748912;27390454;j Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:308464 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
