As Alan says, PHP is popular now because it was free first, and easier on the eye than PERL. PHP's close integration with Apache httpd is also a huge factor in its continuing market domination.
CFML market share would surely take off if you could one day type 'apt- get openbd' or 'yum install openbd'. But needless to say, that represents a lot of effort, by somebody though. -- official tag/function reference: http://openbd.org/manual/ mailing list - http://groups.google.com/group/openbd?hl=en
