I've been dealing with our HR dept too much lately. I think it's rubbing off on me. Don't forget to sell your skills. Obviously, the client is interested in your work, even if it is done in CF. It might help to think of it this way: a baseball player could probably play football, but when it comes to winning the game, the baseball player plays baseball... and you want to win the game. Don't you? :) See? Too much HR. Additionally, CF8 will support native access to .net objects ( http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Scorpio:FAQ) As an aside and an example of my meager knowledge, could you write a CF app, package the CF war/ear/jar and run the app under .net? I know you can run CF under websphere and other app servers by deploying the war/ear files, but I don't know how or if .net could do the same thing. hth. mf
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Teddy Payne Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 10:54 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ACFUG Discuss] OT: Client talking points Seth, You also have to look at your selling point. The client did not make this decision on his/her own. Someone has influenced this person. Are you primarily a CF developer? This may be a deal breaker if you cannot deliver the product in the same amount of time as if it was written in CF. Just real quick: CF can be deployed using more than just Microsoft products, so legacy support and future hybrid network topologies is possible. Teddy On 12/7/06, Tepfer, Seth < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have been in the preliminary stages with a client. I had set up an extensive project charter and a prototype website. Suddenly this client emails me last night and says "I think I should be using .net instead of ColdFusion. Let's meet on Thursday afternoon and discuss this" I am looking for some quick and dirty speaking points to say why CF over other languages (including .net). The obvious ones to me are * rapid development * ease of maintenance * less time in development/maintenance = lower bottom line * other? * stats to justify this? I do not want to start a flame war over .net versus CF. I'm just looking for speaking points (perhaps with some URLs for reference for some useful statistics). Any help would be appreciated. If this has been done previously and is archived in an FAQ, please point me in the right direction. I didn't see clear case justification at the Adobe/MM site – is it there and I just missed it? Thanks. Seth ------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, manage your profile @ http://www.acfug.org?fa=login.edituserform <http://www.acfug.org/?fa=login.edituserform> For more info, see http://www.acfug.org/mailinglists Archive @ http://www.mail-archive.com/discussion%40acfug.org/ <http://www.mail-archive.com/discussion%40acfug.org/> List hosted by FusionLink <http://www.fusionlink.com/> ------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, manage your profile @ http://www.acfug.org?fa=login.edituserform <http://www.acfug.org/?fa=login.edituserform> For more info, see http://www.acfug.org/mailinglists Archive @ http://www.mail-archive.com/discussion%40acfug.org/ List hosted by FusionLink <http://www.fusionlink.com/> ------------------------------------------------------------- -- <cf_payne /> Adobe Certified ColdFusion MX 7 Developer Atlanta CFUG (ACFUG): http://www.acfug.org nNryزXfjꮇj|q
