Just to comment on that Toy Company (and others like it), I believe you're referring
to Toys-R-Us, right? They had bigger issues than programming problems. They also had
fulfillment issues. Quoting an article in the Interactive week:
(http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2612950,00.html)
Louis Trager: "Do the failures of online toy retailers � such as Disney-backed
Toysmart.com and ToyTime.com � reflect a fundamental weakness in the category's
potential?"
Chief Executive John Barbour: "The long-term growth prospects are tremendous.
Forrester Research is forecasting a 71 percent annual compounded growth rate in the
online toy and video game market over the next five years. The majority of
Toysrus.com's customers are women, and by next year women online are expected to grow
to 45 million and overtake the number of men online by 2002."
There's no piece of software on this planet that could have prevented that problem.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hulsey, James Phillip [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2000 9:02 PM
> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: RE: [Fusebox] the future of CF
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>
> Hmmm... I seem to remember a toy company this past Christmas that thought
> the same way.
> Actually, to say that text/tag parsing out performs compiled code actually
> seems more silly to me.?.
>
> Everyone is moving to Java. It doesn't matter if you like it or not.
> However, Allaire is striving to give CF developers a smooth(er) path than
> completely rewriting everything. That would be a bad marketing decision!
>
> I'm not trying to start a war...it's on Allaire's site.
>
> Here's a quote:
>
> "The next major release of Allaire's popular ColdFusion web application
> server, code-named Pharaoh, will integrate the current JRun and ColdFusion
> offerings into a single, Java-based application server that is fully
> backward compatible with ColdFusion and JRun applications."
>
> Phil
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Warrick
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Cc: CF Community
> Sent: 9/19/00 10:56 PM
> Subject: RE: [Fusebox] the future of CF
>
> You must be joking.
>
> Dude, Allaire ain't going nowhere. They can handle a $30M net quarterly
> loss.
>
> And frankly, compared to the losses that most dot-coms rack up, that one
> is pretty small.
>
> (by the way, this is really a discussion for the CF-Community list, so
> I've cross-posted there should anyone like to continue this discussion)
>
> Regarding how CF compares to any other development platform, after
> nearly 4 years of development, no one I know of has ever bench marked
> two identical applications on different development platforms with each
> other. So to just broadly say that ANY platform out performs ANY other
> would be a rather silly statement without some sort of proof.
>
>
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: wish wish [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2000 10:41 AM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: [Fusebox] the future of CF
> >
> >
> > with the recent problems surrounding allaire, it makes me wonder
> > what lies
> > ahead?
> > it seems like everyone is moving toward java/jsp.
> > but how much better is JSP vs CF?
> > anyone care to comment
> > thanks
> >
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