Michael, obviously I don't know the magnitude of the site nor the amount of ASP but here are my thoughts. From my standpoint, learning ASP would be the least desirable route although it is true that this would add to your skill set there are considerable differences from ASP to CF and although you may have an expansive brain I think it is a tall order.
What I would do is spend that time looking at two things, what are the actions, results and needs of the ASP area of the application and what is the back-end to this area (Database - COM etc.). I would then very seriously consider rebuilding this in CF. From the point of view of your client, this is the best route to take having a hybrid app is not good. I am currently heading a project where we are re engineering a large Smalltalk - DB2 - Mainframe App to ColdFusion-Fusebox and with the information I mentioned (needed functionality and back-end actions) we are succeeding. Hope this helps and good luck to you in your decision. Mike Brunt Sempra Energy 213.244.5226 "All computers wait at the same speed." -----Original Message----- From: Michael Kear [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2002 1:23 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Looking for strategy advice ... I'm a CF guy, and one of those who doesn't know a whole lot about programming. For example I don't know VB, and don't know diddley about asp. My business is a really small development/contracting business. I have a client who has a mixture of asp and coldfusion in the site (it's historical don't ask!) and they're feeling a bit vulnerable on the asp side. There is to be a meeting next week to plan for contingency in case the guy who looks after the asp side of the site disappears, gets sick, gets a full time job somewhere else, or whatever. (He's a contractor too and working a day a week keeping the site ticking along but not a lot of development going on) I need to work out what I'm going to do about this, and I have several choices. I'd like your opinions about what I should do .... A. I can do nothing, keep on working on my ColdFusion part of the site and gradually increasing the CF share of the site as I have for the last couple of years. Risk: they might get someone who will put up a good case for standardising on one technology and doing away with the CF. At best, that would give me a fight on my hands which I might win, might not, but I'd rather not have that fight. Everything's going along nicely right now. At worst, I could lose that fight and be out of a major client. B. I can learn asp and take on the responsibility for understudying the asp guy. This is no small task for me. I will have a lot to learn. But then if I have asp skills in my bag of tricks, it will increase my value on the contracting market. And it would cement my place as the "web guy" at the client. C I can take on the responsibility for understudying the asp guy, and hope I never have to actually cover for him. And if I do, I'll get a subcontractor at the time at the prevailing rate. Are there any other possibilities you can think of? Which alternative would you go for? Cheers, Mike Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia AFP WebWorks ______________________________________________________________________ Dedicated Windows 2000 Server PIII 800 / 256 MB RAM / 40 GB HD / 20 GB MO/XFER Instant Activation � $99/Month � Free Setup http://www.pennyhost.com/redirect.cfm?adcode=coldfusiona 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
