Re: CF Compatability

2003-06-19 Thread Thomas Chiverton
On Saturday 14 Jun 2003 21:19 pm, Jim Davis wrote: downgrade). It's fast, capable, and (most importantly for some) is still C++ and some runs their COM infrastructure components like MX can't. cough Look at the sky out there today great shades of red... cough -- Tom C Land of the free,

RE: CF Compatability

2003-06-19 Thread Adam Wayne Lehman
To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: CF Compatability On Saturday 14 Jun 2003 21:19 pm, Jim Davis wrote: downgrade). It's fast, capable, and (most importantly for some) is still C++ and some runs their COM infrastructure components like MX can't. cough Look at the sky out there today great shades of red

RE: CF Compatability

2003-06-16 Thread Philipp Cielen
hm, I think that in the end it would come to Macromedia's benefit if other companies supported ColdFusion as an open standard. These companies could concentrate on business that Macromedia cannot or does not want to cover. It would heighten the credibility of ColdFusion which in turn would help

RE: CF Compatability

2003-06-16 Thread Angel Stewart
Does Microsoft have a 'specification' for the .ASP language? I didn't understand at first how New Atlanta was able to use CFML in the first place. I was under the impression that it would all have been copyrighted by Allaire, and didn't pay it much attention Since I felt New Atlanta would have

Re: CF Compatability

2003-06-16 Thread Joe Eugene
to make a tag or function work... in that case.. i dont think copyright is an issue. Joe Eugene - Original Message - From: Angel Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 9:25 AM Subject: RE: CF Compatability Does Microsoft have

Re: CF Compatability

2003-06-16 Thread Calvin Ward
] To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 10:29 AM Subject: Re: CF Compatability Does Microsoft have a 'specification' for the .ASP language? MS ASP (Active Server Pages) has it own evolution as any other platform. Today ASP is generally called CLASSIC ASP(classic Asp has it own

RE: CF Compatability

2003-06-16 Thread Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX)
I wouldnt think so, I would say that trying to trademark on cfquery would be very very hard to try and enforce - and would probably never happen. -Original Message- From: Calvin Ward [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 16 June 2003 15:45 To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: CF Compatability It seems

Re: CF Compatability

2003-06-16 Thread Jochem van Dieten
Joe Eugene wrote: But..I suppose I was wrong. Is it not possible to 'copyright' a programming language itself? Can you copyright some tags you wrote in ColdFusion.. Yes i think so.. even some developers sell their tags Developer Exchange etc.. Copyright protects against verbatim copies of

RE: CF Compatability

2003-06-16 Thread Neil Middleton
cfquerytm I wouldnt think so, I would say that trying to trademark on cfquery would be very very hard to try and enforce - and would probably never happen. ~| Archives:

Re: CF Compatability

2003-06-16 Thread Calvin Ward
Keep in mind I was avoiding the use of any term like trademark, copyright or anything like that. :P - Original Message - From: Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 10:47 AM Subject: RE: CF Compatability I wouldnt think

Re: CF Compatability

2003-06-15 Thread Dave Lyons
: Sunday, June 15, 2003 1:28 AM Subject: Re: CF Compatability The Lexus-Toyota debate... More than a couple on the list placed the concept of a few bucks being the difference between MX and BD free version... First, I may be working more hours than I ever did, however most

Re: CF Compatability

2003-06-15 Thread John Quarto-vonTivadar
What I don't get is how some of you guys work for shops that charge over $100 an hour but are only making 40k a year or so. so lets say 40 hour week that's 2080 hours a year @ $100 an hour = 208k a year. If you took home 1/2 that's 104k a year. That's a decent living, even in NY. If you

Re: CF Compatability

2003-06-15 Thread Rafael Alan Bleiweiss
At 04:58 AM 6/15/03 -0400, you wrote: If you're free-lancing things are only marginally better. You don't quite have to multiply by 3, since you don't have the overhead, but you do need to multiply by 2.5 since you'll be paying all the FICA taxes, insurance, etc There's a LOT more to it... Let's

Re: CF Compatability

2003-06-15 Thread Dave Lyons
my god I wasn't canning you! Trying to understand how how you guys do it. looks like poor business management to me - Original Message - From: Rafael Alan Bleiweiss [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, June 15, 2003 7:49 AM Subject: Re: CF Compatability

RE: CF Compatability

2003-06-15 Thread Jim Davis
My main problem with all of this is that we're still only comparing implementations, not specifications. Having a real CFML specification (instead of just usage documentation) would make so many things so much easier, I think. Jim Davis President, http://www.depressedpress.com Webmaster,

RE: CF Compatability

2003-06-15 Thread Joe Eugene
-Original Message- From: Jim Davis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, June 15, 2003 1:02 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: CF Compatability My main problem with all of this is that we're still only comparing implementations, not specifications. Having a real CFML specification

Re: CF Compatability

2003-06-15 Thread Doug White
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RE: CF Compatability

2003-06-15 Thread Chris Kief
Huh? You believe they should give the fruits of their hard work to others for free? You're kidding right?? chris -Original Message- From: Doug White [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, June 15, 2003 12:23 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: CF Compatability Among others, Introducing

RE: CF Compatability

2003-06-15 Thread Ken Wilson
By new implementers do you mean someone who would be competing against MM for server sales? Ken -Original Message- From: Doug White [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, June 15, 2003 3:23 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: CF Compatability Among others, Introducing the technology to new

Re: CF Compatability

2003-06-15 Thread Doug White
== If you are not satisfied with my service, my job isn't done! - Original Message - From: Ken Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, June 15, 2003 2:37 PM Subject: RE: CF Compatability | By new implementers do you mean

Re: CF Compatability

2003-06-15 Thread Doug White
- From: Ken Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, June 15, 2003 2:37 PM Subject: RE: CF Compatability | By new implementers do you mean someone who would be competing against MM | for server sales? | | Ken | | | -Original Message- | From: Doug White

RE: CF Compatability

2003-06-15 Thread Chris Kief
And there is a FREE trial download of CFMX...what's your point? chris -Original Message- From: Doug White [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, June 15, 2003 3:27 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: CF Compatability perhaps a better choice of words should have been customers Trial versions

Re: CF Compatability

2003-06-15 Thread Doug White
are not satisfied with my service, my job isn't done! - Original Message - From: Chris Kief [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, June 15, 2003 5:37 PM Subject: RE: CF Compatability | And there is a FREE trial download of CFMX...what's your point? | | chris

RE: CF Compatability

2003-06-15 Thread Chris Kief
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Re: CF Compatability

2003-06-15 Thread Rafael Alan Bleiweiss
Dave, I do appreciate your desire to understand, however this email, as in the last one, has come across as judgementally attacking with a foundation based in a very limited undedstanding. Intended or not, that's just how it comes across. Poor business management how? Because an individual

RE: CF Compatability

2003-06-15 Thread Jim Davis
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, June 15, 2003 1:42 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: CF Compatability What's the incentive to give away CF, the test suites or the language to New Atalnta and others? I'm not sure if this

Re: CF Compatability

2003-06-14 Thread John Quarto-vonTivadar
but please note that substantially compatible is different than being compatible. Damon, I think your compatibility point is well taken. But it would carry much more weight when delivered by people outside of either camp. For example what a Mike Dinowitz or Hal Helms or Howie Hamlin have to

Re: CF Compatability

2003-06-14 Thread Doug White
| | Give us documented features and explicit behaviour on a stable product, | that's what CF people want. | That is exactly what they are doing! Doug ~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4

Re: CF Compatability

2003-06-14 Thread Bryan Stevenson
: Re: CF Compatability but please note that substantially compatible is different than being compatible. Damon, I think your compatibility point is well taken. But it would carry much more weight when delivered by people outside of either camp. For example what a Mike Dinowitz or Hal

Re: CF Compatability

2003-06-14 Thread Dave Lyons
~sure a Lexus is a Toyota but a Toyota definitely isn't a Lexus~ if you know what I am saying ;) - Original Message - From: Damon Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, June 14, 2003 12:51 PM Subject: CF Compatability Ok, it's Saturday morning, and I'm

RE: CF Compatability

2003-06-14 Thread Charlie Arehart
Hey Damon, how can I take on someone who loves me to death? :-) Seriously, thanks for those kind words, and of course you know I've always appreciated what you and many at MM have done for the CFML community as well. Thanks for recognizing that this really is about our mutual interests in

RE: CF Compatability

2003-06-14 Thread Charlie Arehart
. /charlie -Original Message- From: Dave Lyons [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, June 14, 2003 3:15 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: CF Compatability ~sure a Lexus is a Toyota but a Toyota definitely isn't a Lexus~ if you know what I am saying

Re: CF Compatability

2003-06-14 Thread Dave Lyons
..nope:)(the girls like it) dave - Original Message - From: Charlie Arehart [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, June 14, 2003 3:28 PM Subject: RE: CF Compatability The inference isn't such a bad one, considering the tremendous respect Toyota has

RE: CF Compatability

2003-06-14 Thread Jim Davis
[Just to get out of work for a minute; not as a direct response to anybody.] Personally at this point I'm not sure I care about (small) incompatibilities between CF5 and BD. I've been working with CF since version 1.5. Due to circumstances (my location and the fact my company was an early

RE: CF Compatability

2003-06-14 Thread Mike Brunt
: RE: CF Compatability [Just to get out of work for a minute; not as a direct response to anybody.] Personally at this point I'm not sure I care about (small) incompatibilities between CF5 and BD. I've been working with CF since version 1.5. Due to circumstances (my location and the fact my

RE: CF Compatability

2003-06-14 Thread Charlie Arehart
, June 14, 2003 4:20 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: CF Compatability [Just to get out of work for a minute; not as a direct response to anybody.] Personally at this point I'm not sure I care about (small) incompatibilities between CF5 and BD. I've been working with CF since version 1.5. Due

Re: CF Compatability

2003-06-14 Thread John Quarto-vonTivadar
But will I give up my Lexus for a Toyota..nope:)(the girls like it) dave then you haven't seen my Toyota :) by the way, *IF* this is the analogy you mean, then you're making Charlie's case for him, since it's what's under the hood that counts -- otherwise all we're doing is

RE: CF Compatability

2003-06-14 Thread Charlie Arehart
] Sent: Saturday, June 14, 2003 5:05 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: CF Compatability Jim this is a great email with some very well thought through points (My app conforms to CFML 5.1) love that thought. Just want to throw a viewpoint in here; we have been working with a large Enterprise level IBM

Re: CF Compatability

2003-06-14 Thread Dave Lyons
:52 PM Subject: Re: CF Compatability But will I give up my Lexus for a Toyota..nope:)(the girls like it) dave then you haven't seen my Toyota :) by the way, *IF* this is the analogy you mean, then you're making Charlie's case for him, since it's what's under the hood

RE: CF Compatability

2003-06-14 Thread Jim Davis
-Original Message- From: Charlie Arehart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, June 14, 2003 5:48 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: CF Compatability Jim, lots of interesting points. We absolutely agree that many shops are still at 4.5 (if 5), and they may be facing (as you

Re: CF Compatability

2003-06-14 Thread Sean A Corfield
On Saturday, Jun 14, 2003, at 14:04 US/Pacific, Mike Brunt wrote: we have been working with a large Enterprise level IBM Shop for the past 2.5 years or so. They are on a crusade to change a lot of the legacy main-frame'ish applications over to web-based applications. Also they are

RE: CF Compatability

2003-06-14 Thread Charlie Arehart
to either just run your CFML apps there, or integrate, or if you choose later, rewrite. /charlie -Original Message- From: Dave Lyons [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, June 14, 2003 8:15 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: CF Compatability depends on how you look at it if you have ever

RE: CF Compatability

2003-06-14 Thread Charlie Arehart
Message- From: Jim Davis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, June 14, 2003 9:01 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: CF Compatability -Original Message- From: Charlie Arehart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, June 14, 2003 5:48 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: CF Compatability

Re: CF Compatability

2003-06-14 Thread Sean A Corfield
On Saturday, Jun 14, 2003, at 18:00 US/Pacific, Jim Davis wrote: Unfortunately I'm pretty sure. My company (New England Financial) was actually bought by MetLife. Met is heavily IBM-centric and is following the IBM How to deploy web applications handbook step-by-step. Our (currently

RE: CF Compatability

2003-06-14 Thread Charlie Arehart
I think I've already addressed this point a couple times, Sean. Perhaps in the flurry of notes, you'd not seen that before offering this point. If you had, then let's just let our two positions stand in apposition. /charlie snip Well, that's already the case because Blue Dragon doesn't support

RE: CF Compatability

2003-06-14 Thread Yves Arsenault
PROTECTED] (902)368-1895 ext.242 -Original Message- From: Charlie Arehart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: June 14, 2003 10:08 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: CF Compatability Dave, clearly, if you're at CFMX already, we're not a solution for you. And again we're not even seeking to draw

Re: CF Compatability

2003-06-14 Thread Rafael Alan Bleiweiss
PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, June 14, 2003 5:52 PM Subject: Re: CF Compatability But will I give up my Lexus for a Toyota..nope:)(the girls like it) dave then you haven't seen my Toyota :) by the way, *IF* this is the analogy you