It has been some time since I have written to the CFAUSSIE list..... As many on this list will know, ABN AMRO Morgans has been using CF (and CFMX - with CFC's quite heavily) for some time now (well over 5 years). I have personally been using Coldfusion since V3 (mid 1999). Prior to that I was a dedicated C/C++ developer and trainer (with some Lotus Notes on the side).
Also - for some time now - the CF evangelist - Ben Forta - has been encouraging people who need a more rigorous development platform (with interfaces, strong typing, and other Java-like features) to move to Java. I can now say that ABN AMRO Morgans have taken Ben's advice and we are moving off Coldfusion and on to Java (Spring-based - not EJB). That is not an overnight process, but it is our direction and the move has started. Our current investigations, testing, framework evaluation, etc. - tells us we are making the right move. We have already re-written portions of our website to use Java-based objects over Coldfusion objects. We actually have Coldfusion running on Tomcat (not in production) and are able to obtain and interact with Spring-wired Java objects. So we even have a "soft" migration path (if we wish to take it - although I doubt we will need it). For us (and for me) - it has been a good run. Java has matured. The toolsets are mature. Coldfusion itself runs on Java (so it cant be that bad). And we have skilled developers that can easily make the move. Time to jump. I am sure we will have our teething problems with Java - but it is a more widely supported development platform with plenty of variants (WebSphere, WebLogic, JBoss, Tomcat) so we are not tied to one vendor. The TCO (total cost of ownership) is much less than CFMX (most of it is free or we can buy site-wide licenses for the cost of one CFMX server license - we run between 6-10 servers) and we are confident that this direction will continue to serve us well for quite a while. NOTE: we use our development platform for internal systems as much as (if not more than) we do for "website development". Regards, Gary Menzel Application Systems Architect ABN AMRO Morgans --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "cfaussie" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cfaussie?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
