There's an interesting theme here, paying for what you get. With developers, that is true in the extreme. With ColdFusion vs either Railo or Open BD that truth becomes hazy indeed and will clearly depend on what it is you need done.
I can't imagine that for a single project the cost of a CF license is going to save you money in terms of developer time. And if you are doing any great work on the js side of things, I would suggest that using cfml tags to achieve your ends will *cost* you time (whether Railo, Open BD or CF) because sooner or later you hit the limit of what can be done, e.g. http://betterautosuggest.riaforge.org After completing that miniature project, it became clear what a complete waste of time it was (which meant that it wasn't a waste of time I guess). That custom tag is better than the one that CF supplies and yet still pales in comparison to what is offered open source. Invest in the people :) Dominic 2009/6/22 Don L <[email protected]>: > > Dominic, > > I've read your posts and am very impressed and yes, technically the current > architecture of the various open source cfml engines are probably most > desirable - I'm not exactly in a position to draw a conclusion but just a > sort of guess, here what I was talking off my head was, from business > perspective I want to get this thing done or converted quickly. One option > is, hop around for a very desirable technical solution or get it done quickly > still as a good solution but more focus on the feature and/or design, and > besides, I don't have the luxury as some big company. > btw, I need to distribute my app and run locally. > >> I disagree and don't believe that the open source cfml languages need >> to offer wrappers for javascript libraries. Trying to keep up, and >> offer wrappers for these libraries only limits the programmer - the >> scattered js offerings of CF8 compared to the scope and depth of >> what's on offer from the js community is a testament to that. >> >> I feel that os frameworks wrapping other os frameworks is counter >> intuitive. Side by side they are free to grow and to do their job >> brilliantly. >> >> Dominic >> >> >> 2009/6/22 Don L <[email protected]>: >> > Or, put it this way, I think the need for a "freebie cfml engine" + >> cool latest ajax functions are of substantial value, but probably the >> way it is now, is "freebie cfml engines" like BD, may not have native >> ajax functions like what cf8 > has > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:323795 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
