Are their any reliable figures (including on the web) about growth rates of ColdFusion usage compared to ASP etc? I'm also interested the "total cost of ownership" of a ColdFusion site compared to ASP and ASP.NET etc.
You might start building your case by reading through http://www.cffaq.com/. There is plenty of archival material on this subject floating about the internet.
Growth rates?? That's a bit of nonsense really. You could review Macromedias revenue figures for CF. But you want comparative analysis vs scripting environments that ship with OS's. For instance, our servers run ASP but we don't build applications in it -- do we get counted in ASP stats, probably??
Total cost of ownership is easy. CF is universally regarded as about the easiest language to build things in. Read simple >> read productivity >> read ROI. Besides have you reviewed the actual cost of Win2k/Win2003 server licenses recently?
If your shop is running J2EE -- .NET is not worth even considering (except for purposes of interoperability). If you M$ all the way then you can argue in terms of feature set and fundamental productivity -- few people realise that CF is the *most* mature application server on the market today.
Could rave for hours.. but no time... no time.
Yours evangelisingly,
-- geoff Team Macromedia Volunteer for ColdFusion http://www.daemon.com.au/
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