Look back through the list for information on Google counts of cfm pages and raves by me comparing productivity of ColdFusion with other languages. Over the last year the global Google results have risen to ~ 32 million from 28-29 million last year. The relative positions of .cfm vs other file extensions (e.g php, asp, jsp, aspx) is very interesting. In a count of .au domains with .cfm pages indexed on Google earlier this year we counted 2,187, up from our previous figure of ~ 1,800. Of course this is not a very precise measure, but it is indicative, especially at such a lacklustre time in IT.
More important in the long term for ColdFusion is the response we're getting from companies who've adopted a J2EE strategy - when they understand how well ColdFusion fits in with J2EE they give it very serious attention. Sun recently certified ColdFusion as a J2EE 1.3 compliant application. In the last week a major Australian Telco has gone live with multiple applications running on CFMX for SunONE, and we have several other major corporate and government clients considering various flavours of CFMX (Standalone, JRun, Websphere etc). For anyone talking about J2EE ColdFusion is a fantastic technology. ColdFusion is a proven technology. Earlier this year a major Australian bank launched its credit card loyalty program on a cluster of five ColdFusion servers. Key parts of Medicare have been running on ColdFusion for years. Boeing's intranet is built on ColdFusion. At the height of the internet boom Toys R Us ran on a cluster of almost two hundred ColdFusion servers. Many people on this list work for And fundamentally, the people on this list KNOW that ColdFusion is a great technology, especially if they occasionally have to develop internet applications using other technologies. Other companies know this too - the interview with Jeremy Allaire (link posted a few weeks back) regarding the origins of ColdFusion and other web technologies is very interesting reading. The RAD tag-based approach pioneered by ColdFusion in 1995 and bagged mercilessly ever since has been taken up more recently by all sorts of hot technologies (JSP, XSLT, ASP.NET). Integration wise ColdFusion is hard to beat - out of the box support for FTP, HTTP, SMTP, POP, LDAP, JDBC, ODBC, Java, COM, Corba, WebServices and Flash. Deployment wise does anything come close? Any J2EE 1.3 web container, Windows, Linux, Solaris, HP-UX. One partner is even considering running CFMX on Websphere on Linux on an IBM mainframe (hmm, 3 datacentres, fibre optic connections, Sysplex cluster would be pretty scalable...) Damn, where did the time go? <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Hello > > 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. > > Thanks > > Peter Mount > [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- You are currently subscribed to cfaussie as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] MX Downunder AsiaPac DevCon - http://mxdu.com/
