> hehe.. I think it's funny slamming on Microsoft products in
> here. If everyone who ran ColdFusion on NT left the list, how
> many would be left.
>
> It just occurred to me that MS is the Dallas Cowboys of the
> software industry.. you either love em or hate em .. no
> in-between.
I generally like most MS products, but the original question was how CF
compares to ASP.NET. The fact that this kind of question can be knocked
around so casually - about products that don't exist yet - demonstrates how
Microsoft often operates. They come up with new acronyms faster than they
can get rid of the merchandise that uses the old acronyms. Anyone remember
Microsoft DNA? How about COM+, Storage+, Forms+? Then, they push the new
acronym as if it, by itself, has some meaning and use. Eventually, they get
a product out that usually fulfills some, but not all, of the promised
feature set for the new acronym.
To feel like I understand a product initiative, I like to be able to
summarize it in a single sentence. I haven't seen that summary for .NET yet,
even though the product is in beta. The best explanation I've seen is the
Dr. Gui column on MSDN, but even that is pretty buzzword-thick.
When NT 3.1 came out, it was not very good, but Microsoft was still able to
take the OS/2 market with promises about the future. Those promises didn't
come close to reality until NT 3.51.
Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software
http://www.figleaf.com/
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