On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 9:27 PM, Dave Watts <[email protected]> wrote: > Actually, it's a bit more complicated than that. They're not just > "moving to Drupal" - they're limiting the vendors who can provide > solutions for websites hosted by the US Senate Sergeant-at-Arms
Interesting. When I saw the list of consultants at the end of that article, it made me wonder if there was some "political" stuff going on. > their current sites. I don't think CF is going anywhere - it will Good to know. That's why I raised the issue here - so someone more closely associated could cast some light on the discussion. > still be one of the hosting options for these sites. But the SAA is no > longer going to support most of the currently deployed CMS solutions. Can you give some examples of CMS solutions that are losing support? > CF has been in use by the federal government practically as long as > it's existed - we were working on government projects back in CF 2.0 Thanx. I knew it was a long relationship but I didn't know when it started. > We're located in DC, and the government has always been a big part of > our business. If you do a search for CF jobs, you'll find that DC is > the hot spot for them. Absolutely. That came up in another thread recently. > I do think that, for a lot of agencies that have lagged behind in > deploying web apps, those agencies are more likely to go with F/OSS > solutions, just because they haven't had the budget to do these things > before. And haven't done their research either, presumably :) Thanx for your input, Dave. -- Sean A Corfield -- (904) 302-SEAN Railo Technologies, Inc. -- http://getrailo.com/ An Architect's View -- http://corfield.org/ "If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive." -- Margaret Atwood ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:340729 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
