Ouch 16 forms, I spend 90 percent of my time developing some kind of form, and I am always doing complex validation, both server and client side. A good form is a work of art! If I knew I had 16 forms on the burner though, I'd probably scream :)
To answer your question, as far as form development time goes, it really depends on how intelligent they are going to be. If you are just submitting the forms to a database or emailing the contents, the development time difference is negligible if you know both CF and ASP already. If you are planning complex validation and a lot of database work with the data from these forms, the cfform tag handles quite a bit in and of itself. If <cfform> does everything you need for validation then you could be done with the project faster than I can guzzle a Red Bull...Also just about every kind of custom validation has been written into a CF custom tag that you can freely download from the Dev Exchange. You definately cant say that about ASP. It really doesn't matter what you are doing, CF development times are always faster than ASP. Hardware costs are going to be the same either way. We have some production CF sites running on a Pentium Pro and it still works great. The main difference between the two is the developers. Developers cost more than hardware and software combined. Your decision should be based upon your developers skillsets. oooh I just had an idea for a new cf tag...a flash form generator. Wait...what would I do with all my free time? Nevermind...scratch that idea! ;-) jon Steven Dworman wrote: >Thanks for all the input. My boss is looking for something a little more >specific. Let's say for example that we have a set number of screens to >develop, say 24 :). A third of them are for display purposes only, so now >we're down to 16 screens that have input forms and such. When developing a >form, both display and action what kind of time difference are we looking at >between asp and cf? Also what kind of hardware are we looking at for a 2000 >user application. More or less or same with cf or asp? > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
