Actually, it is a product manager at Microsoft who said that. My question to him was "In your opinion, what is needed in ColdFusion as far as .NET integration goes?" (Nice and generic). The response "Make sure it can access .NET Web Services" (access, not necessarily produce).
But that is somewhat academic at this point. Does CF support .NET? Well, that depends on what you mean by support. No, it does not run in the CLR. But yes, it does provide access to Web Services, and it does provide access to COM (admittedly we're hearing about some COM problems in CFMX but we will get to the bottom of them), it does support the .NET Servers (duh!), ... What you really need to determine is what is actually needed when .NET integration is requested. And you'll never got the same answer twice. --- Ben -----Original Message----- From: Cravens, Billy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, June 17, 2002 1:58 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Need help with CFMX/ASP.NET comparison... Hahahahahah! Obviously a Microsoft marketing person. That makes it sound like the only facet to .NET is web services (very untrue) It's okay though - I've heard more than a few pieces of garbage come out of the mouths of Macromedia marketing folk as well ... --- Billy Cravens -----Original Message----- From: Neil Clark - =TMM= [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, June 17, 2002 12:14 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Need help with CFMX/ASP.NET comparison... I am sure it was Ben Forta who asked a Microspod representative about what CFMX had to do to support .Net : the answer was simply "consume web services".. Job done methinks... -----Original Message----- From: Matt Liotta [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 17 June 2002 17:41 To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Need help with CFMX/ASP.NET comparison... Caught by marketing hype! CFMX has zero support for .NET. CFMX kind of supports COM and Web services. You can use both as middleware to call a NET class, but that isn't really the same thing as support if you need middleware now is it. -Matt > -----Original Message----- > From: Donnie Bachan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, June 17, 2002 9:19 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: RE: Need help with CFMX/ASP.NET comparison... > > Actually I think you should throw at your boss that CFMX supports both > .NET and Java. This is important because it is just plain faster to > deliver solutions using CF than it is in any other package that I have > ever seen > but > CF is not the best solution to every problem, now you have the ability to > create the parts that you need in .NET or Java and just plug them into the > CF framework with little integration effort. This is something that is so > difficult in all the others, there are no real elegant solutions to > perform tight integration. For me that would be a big selling point. > It is valuable > to learn .NET because there is no escaping its promise or power but I > would > not move away from the base of CF MX especially now. I also have a feeling > that future releases will show more support for .NET. > > Best Regards, > > Donnie Bachan > Phone: (718) 217-2883 > ICQ#: 28006783 > "Nitendo Vinces - By Striving You Shall Conquer" > ====================================================================== > The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to > which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged > material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or > taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or > entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received > this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any > computer. > > > ______________________________________________________________________ Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm 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
