For historical perspective, you might also want to mention Lasso which was contemporaneous with the origin of CF and shared very much the same ideas. The biggest difference was that Lasso was Mac-focused and intended to integrate with FileMaker Pro. I did Lasso dev prior to learning CF and it was a fairly easy transition.
Note, however, that I didn't get into CF until 1998, so I was a late bloomer there, whereas I started with Lasso in 96. ASP didn't come around til 98. Cheers, Judah On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 10:05 PM, Billy Cravens <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thanks Dave. I guess authoritative isn't the correct word, as much as I'm > looking for details (who, when, etc). Probably won't be that big a deal, > since the focus of the talk is "why .NET developers should care about CF", > but I like to be prepared, since I'll definitely bring predating ASP. :-) > >> >> I don't think you're going to find a more authoritative source for >> the >> acquisition attempt than Jeremy Allaire and Adam Berrey. The other >> information is accurate as well, as I remember it. I tried out dbWeb, >> and it wasn't as good as CF 1.5. Microsoft did acquire Aspect, >> released DBWeb, then dumped it for ASP 1.0 (I don't know anything >> about the ASP 1.0 codebase coming from i-Whatever). >> >> Oddly enough, there's still dbWeb documentation on the MS support >> site: >> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/155412 >> >> Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software >> http://www.figleaf.com/ >> http://training.figleaf.com/ >> >> Fig Leaf Software is a Veteran-Owned Small Business (VOSB) on >> GSA Schedule, and provides the highest caliber vendor-authorized >> instruction at our training centers, online, or onsite. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:346990 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
