Hi Barney,
Each platform has its advantages and disadvantages but each platform must also remain competitive in the space. In that regard I'm not convinced that Coldfusion is holding it's own against for example Asp.Net. If Coldfusion doesn't remain competitive then market share is likely to decline and consequently development opportunities. I don't have any statistical evidence to show that Coldfusion is in decline but the number of of job postings seems to be decreasing and thats not generally a good sign.
As for asynchronous processing, I don't believe that this is an Enterprise feature. The company I work for develops lots of small applications that will interface with third-party solutions. In this situation Asynchronous processing is important. It doesn't however mean that these applications are Enterprise applications.
Cheers, Pete (aka lad4bear)
On 07/11/05, Barney Boisvert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
If you can develop an ASP.NET app faster than a CF app, and it's just
as easy to maintain, then you're definitely doing yourself a
disservice by using CF at all, licensing costs aside. But on the flip
side, how many companies purchase CF over other solutions? So someone
obviously sees a value to it.
I'd hate to digress into a pissing match, but pick the best tool for
the job, and use it to the best of your abilities. If it's CF, great,
if it's not, great. Long as you keep getting paid, it's all pretty
irrelevant.
As for async processing, I think it's justifiable to make that
enterprise only. Certainly custom gateways are an enterprise-level
feature. Async processing is also a fairly "advanced" need that isn't
really present until you get to larger applications. And if you
really have a need, you can fake it pretty easily (though not as
efficiently) with CFHTTP.
cheers,
barneyb
On 11/6/05, Peter Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Sean,
>
> It's not often I disagree with you but on this occasion I think I do.
>
> When hunting for contracts / customers, we're competing with companies who
> are using JSP, Asp.Net etc. The competition can set the whole thing up
> without the licensing overhead which we have to pass onto the Customer. For
> smaller apps (the kind where we would consider using shared hosting for)
> this gives the JSP / Asp.Net developers a competitive advantage. Given that
> Coldfusion is sold (to some extent) on how good it is for building
> <emp>small sites</emp> quickly, your argument seems a little
> counter-intutive.
>
> It could be argued that the speed of development using Coldfusion would
> offset the cost of the license but I don't think this is strong argument.
> Personally, I can build a web app in Asp.Net more quickly than in
> Coldfusion. And once I've finished an application I can roll it out to as
> many clients as I want (maximising return on time / effort /money invested)
> without having to pay additional license fees.
>
> And be honest, the license fee for Enterprise version of CF is completely
> insane.
>
> Cheers Pete (aka lad4bear)
>
> PS: I'd also appreciate it if you can tell me who's idea it was to make
> Asynchrous Processing an Enterprise only feature, cos I think I need to have
> a ...ahem ... little word (4 letters to be precise) with them ;)
>
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