Re: CF vs. ASP.Net

2010-06-22 Thread Jose Diaz
Hi Guys, Unfortunatly the company I work for decided to move away from CF :( and proceeded to get shot of all the cf devs we had. I was one of two survivors who they see as legacy application developers grr even thou I decided to become an MCPD, they still see us a just CF devs. Anyhoo I did

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2010-06-22 Thread Sean Corfield
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 6:47 AM, Jose Diaz bleached...@gmail.com wrote: Unfortunatly the company I work for decided to move away from CF :( and proceeded to get shot of all the cf devs we had. Sorry to hear that - glad you survived tho'... Anyhoo I did build the following site: www.cfdot.net

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2010-06-21 Thread Won Lee
http://www.adobe.com/enterprise/pdfs/Adobe3112.pdf ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive:

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2010-06-21 Thread Casey Dougall
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 2:23 PM, Won Lee won...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.adobe.com/enterprise/pdfs/Adobe3112.pdf Well, there ya go, we got another 4 years to learn new languages... Adobe, way to set a bleak future for your own product!

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2010-06-21 Thread Mary Jo Sminkey
Again, I must make the argument why CF and not ASP.NET. Brand New - In Defense of CF: http://www.terrenceryan.com/blog/post.cfm/dear-coldfusion-skeptic --- Mary Jo ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now!

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2010-06-21 Thread Won Lee
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 2:29 PM, Casey Dougall ca...@uberwebsitesolutions.com wrote: On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 2:23 PM, Won Lee won...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.adobe.com/enterprise/pdfs/Adobe3112.pdf Well, there ya go, we got another 4 years to learn new languages... Adobe, way

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2010-06-21 Thread Dave Watts
Well, there ya go, we got another 4 years to learn new languages... Adobe, way to set a bleak future for your own product! Adobe didn't write that, Gartner did. And overall, it's a pretty positive whitepaper. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/

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2010-06-21 Thread Sean Corfield
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 11:34 AM, Dave Watts dwa...@figleaf.com wrote: Well, there ya go, we got another 4 years to learn new languages... Adobe, way to set a bleak future for your own product! Adobe didn't write that, Gartner did. And overall, it's a pretty positive whitepaper. Particularly

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2004-12-14 Thread Jim Davis
-Original Message- From: Ken Ketsdever [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 13, 2004 3:07 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: CF vs ASP.NET! GET YOUR FRESH POPCON!! Michael, Kill this thread!! For what it's worth I thoroughly enjoy threads like this. It's

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2004-12-14 Thread Ken Ketsdever
outsourced spam filter / email servers, then message I sent yesterday didn't get delivered until this morning (thank you spam tank and single fin). -Original Message- From: Jim Davis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2004 9:19 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: CF vs ASP.NET

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2004-12-14 Thread Mark Drew
Cant we all learn to love each other for our differences? MD ~| Special thanks to the CF Community Suite Silver Sponsor - CFDynamics http://www.cfdynamics.com Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:187585

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2004-12-14 Thread Tangorre, Michael
From: Mark Drew [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Cant we all learn to love each other for our differences? What fun is that! :-) ~| Special thanks to the CF Community Suite Silver Sponsor - RUWebby http://www.ruwebby.com Message:

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2004-12-14 Thread Ken Ketsdever
Michael, Kill this thread!! Confidentiality Notice: This message including any attachments is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you

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2004-12-14 Thread Jason L. West, Sr.
. Please, lets move this to someplace else. Jason L. West, Sr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Dawson, Michael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 13, 2004 14:39 To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: CF vs ASP.NET! GET YOUR FRESH POPCON!! Maybe I'm the only one

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2004-12-14 Thread Bryan Stevenson
Will...just remember...this is a technical forumso non-tech threads have a limited lifespan here As Mike D saidit can go to CF-Macromedia or CF-OT or heck...even the insane CF-Community Cheers Bryan Stevenson B.Comm. VP Director of E-Commerce Development Electric Edge Systems Group

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2004-12-14 Thread dave
will, if u spent as much time going to your local cfug as u do whining u'd have a damn cfm job have u ever gone to a cfug? do u know what a cfug is? funny, last night at ours, the shops that were going .net cfm have now scaled back to just cfm, hu and plenty of jobs were passed

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2004-12-14 Thread Ray Champagne
Where the heck do you live? I wish I had the balls to up and move from my homeland. I consider myself a PGP (pretty good programmer), and I am stuck here at an embarassing salary. My job, co-workers and job environment is awesome, I get to take my dog to work, I make my own hours, and have

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2004-12-14 Thread Adrocknaphobia
I know this thread is supposed to be dead, but I wanted to follow up what Ben had mentioned about CF in Gov. Our branch was formed within the State Dept to consolidate all IT under one roof. We inheritied nasty asp applications that rely heavily in AD and msSQL. (ever try to change a domain on

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2004-12-14 Thread Michael Dinowitz
: Will Tomlinson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2004 3:14 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: CF vs ASP.NET! GET YOUR FRESH POPCON!! Silence the dissenters. Hitler practiced that concept well! ***There are only a handful of irrelevant posts in this thread out of 98

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2004-12-14 Thread Adrocknaphobia
Oh yeah, and for the people in house who converted from classic and .NET to CF. Lol, they wouldnt go back, even for a bump in salary. -Adam On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 16:40:46 -0500, Adrocknaphobia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know this thread is supposed to be dead, but I wanted to follow up what Ben

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2004-12-14 Thread Will Tomlinson
Silence the dissenters. Hitler practiced that concept well! ***There are only a handful of irrelevant posts in this thread out of 98 (as of now). Silencing unhappy CF'ers who are having to diversify due to the lack of CF jobs, and are willing to subject themselves to ridicule by their peers,

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2004-12-14 Thread Dave Watts
Silence the dissenters. Hitler practiced that concept well! Yes, well I can certainly see your point with that analogy. Presumably, after the putsch, those who disagree with Team Macromedia will be rounded up for extermination, whether they use .NET or simply want CF to be better. I'm sure this

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2004-12-14 Thread Ian Skinner
I wonder how many of those jobs have listings like this? Experienced web developer / software application programmer utilizing various technologies and skills, including: ColdFusion , HTML, Active Server Pages, IIS, ASP.NET, JavaScript, XML, MS SQL Server, XSLT, VBScript, SQL Programming, C#,

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2004-12-14 Thread Michael Dinowitz
There are parts of this thread which are not really useful and it's gotten past the useful point. I've asked before for it to be moved over to the CF-OT or Macromedia-Talk lists. I'd rather not do it myself if I don't have to as it's better for the community to police itself. On the other hand,

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2004-12-14 Thread Micha Schopman
group hug ... coffee for everyone .. now GET BACK TO YOUR CODE ;) From: Mark Drew [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tue 12/14/2004 6:50 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: CF vs ASP.NET! GET YOUR FRESH POPCON!! Cant we all learn to love each other for our

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2004-12-13 Thread Murat Demirci
Message- From: Mike Kear [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 13, 2004 3:37 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: CF vs ASP.NET! GET YOUR FRESH POPCON!! Regarding the relative costs of the expensive ColdFusion and the free other technologies, I have a statement from a colleague

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2004-12-13 Thread Mark Drew
I think I am going to switch to COBOL or PASCAL.. not sure this CF shaahoey will ever take off. ASP.NET? isnt that a website about snakes that are hidden in pretty baskets? Ho hum. Flame wars are so invigorating dont you think? CFMX smells of eldeberries. -- Mark Drew coldfusion and

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2004-12-13 Thread Micha Schopman
Cmon, step of that pre defined CF idea. It makes a discussion very difficult, when people are rusty in their current web application platform, and do not try to be open minded about other possible ways. The flamewar part is long gone (if there was a flamewar, it was merely a sharp discussion).

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2004-12-13 Thread Micha Schopman
I guess they did something terribly wrong there, PHP is a very simple language, you could even compare the learning curve to CF. I build my apps as fast with CF as PHP or ASP (C# other story), so I must guess there have been other issues except the application server used. Micha Schopman

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2004-12-13 Thread Jim Davis
(at $1200) is insignificant in the scheme of any project where they'll be buying and managing their own servers. Jim Davis -Original Message- From: Murat Demirci [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 13, 2004 3:30 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: CF vs ASP.NET! GET YOUR FRESH

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2004-12-13 Thread Murat Demirci
PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 13, 2004 3:53 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: CF vs ASP.NET! GET YOUR FRESH POPCON!! For most small to medium projects I'm not sure why you would ever want to buy CF anyway - hosting seems the way to. Since the development servers are free you can create

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2004-12-13 Thread S . Isaac Dealey
On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 01:02:18 -0500, Jim Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not sure how this will be implemented in BlackStone - Isaac's post was the first I'd heard of it. But it is doable in Java (of course) and it wouldn't be all that hard to create a CFC to kick something like this

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2004-12-13 Thread Assistenza Sito
TIm Uzzanti : Someone mentioned ediet.com which has a traffic ranking of around 280,000 and in comparison CrystalTech is around 23,000. Microsoft.com which is in the top 10 is using ASP.NET and Dell.COM which is in the top 100 is also using ASP.NET.. Forta has already blogged this, but i think

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2004-12-13 Thread Steve Brownlee
One more thing. Please don't attack me! I'm just the messenger! Ignorance is bliss, my friend. While you're at it, why not throw a message around claiming that the Democrats are better than Republicans, or espouse the ideological supremacy of the Lutheran church over the Catholics.

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2004-12-13 Thread S . Isaac Dealey
If they're going to standardize it in BlackStone, more power to them, but HOW they're going to do it I'm not sure. Will they only support orphaned threads (threads which are created and launched but can't communicate back to the parent thread) or will they support a more complete model.

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2004-12-13 Thread Kwang Suh
Let's say I have a website I want to cluster on 10 servers. With CF, that's 10 production licenses at whatever cost you can find CF at. With .NET, it's zero cost, so there can be some additional cost savings. Also, no matter what way you cut it, CF Enterprise is quite expensive. Also, only

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2004-12-13 Thread Spike
Kwang Suh wrote: One thing that depresses me about the CF community is their incredible defensiveness, even from MM. If you only take the opinions from people who have subscribed to a relatively high volume mailing list called CF-Talk you'd be very naive to expect anything else. Would you

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2004-12-13 Thread Kwang Suh
One thing that depresses me about the CF community is their incredible defensiveness, even from MM. When .NET came out, and people started to use and understand it better, the Java community did what every CF person should be doing: they learned .NET. And then they deconstructed it. And then

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2004-12-13 Thread Spike
Kwang Suh wrote: Let's say I have a website I want to cluster on 10 servers. With CF, that's 10 production licenses at whatever cost you can find CF at. With .NET, it's zero cost, so there can be some additional cost savings. I'd like to see the total cost break-down for a site that was so

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2004-12-13 Thread Kwang Suh
If you need to do something like that you can easily write it in Java and call the java code from a CFML template. Ah yes, the old use Java when CF can't do it crutch. I though the whole point of CF was to make it easy for developers to develop. And everything else is hard/takes longer/is

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2004-12-13 Thread Kwang Suh
Kwang Suh wrote: Let's say I have a website I want to cluster on 10 servers. With CF, that's 10 production licenses at whatever cost you can find CF at. With .NET, it's zero cost, so there can be some additional cost savings. I'd like to see the total cost break-down for a site that

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2004-12-13 Thread Kwang Suh
Kwang Suh wrote: One thing that depresses me about the CF community is their incredible defensiveness, even from MM. If you only take the opinions from people who have subscribed to a relatively high volume mailing list called CF-Talk you'd be very naive to expect anything else.

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2004-12-13 Thread Aaron Rouse
I'd like this, but I think there are a lot of people out there who do not fully understand what a null is and is not. -- Aaron Rouse http://www.happyhacker.com/ On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 14:21:42 -0400, Kwang Suh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like a concept of null type

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2004-12-13 Thread Spike
Well, Excuse me! Kwang Suh wrote: If you need to do something like that you can easily write it in Java and call the java code from a CFML template. Ah yes, the old use Java when CF can't do it crutch. Please don't belittle my comments with such an offhand packaged response. I am try to

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2004-12-13 Thread Ben Rogers
Huh? So suggesting mixing VB.NET and C# to squeeze more power from a .NET app that is what, a crutch? And what about writing straight Java when JSP can't do enough? I hate to take the other side of this argument, but I think your example is flawed. There's no practical reason to use C# over

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2004-12-13 Thread Kwang Suh
I like to give people some credit. If I understand what a null is, I'm sure anyone else can. I'd like this, but I think there are a lot of people out there who do not fully understand what a null is and is not. -- Aaron Rouse http://www.happyhacker.com/ On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 14:21:42 -0400,

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2004-12-13 Thread Sean Corfield
On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 14:14:40 -0500, Dave Watts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Again, your assumption is that everyone's using Windows. If that's not the case, then you need to factor in the cost of Windows licenses as well as potential server management costs. In addition, you might be able to scale

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2004-12-13 Thread Sean Corfield
On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 14:12:15 -0400, Kwang Suh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm, Macromedia's for one. Not sure if has ten, but there's a quite a few there. Anandtech was running quite a few as well. There's William Sonoma. How about Toys'R'Us before they switched over? Pottery Barn. I think

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2004-12-13 Thread Kwang Suh
Ah yes, the old use Java when CF can't do it crutch. Huh? So suggesting mixing VB.NET and C# to squeeze more power from a .NET app that is what, a crutch? And what about writing straight Java when JSP can't do enough? By design, a .NET app is meant to use any IL conformate language. As well,

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2004-12-13 Thread Kwang Suh
Is it safe then to assume that you don't use a QA server for .NET development, or are you somehow doing that without paying for a Windows license? No, it is not. My MSDN subscription allows me to run multiple Windows server for non-production purposes.

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2004-12-13 Thread Rey Bango
Ah yes, the old use Java when CF can't do it crutch. I though the whole point of CF was to make it easy for developers to develop. And everything else is hard/takes longer/is more expensive. So why do I want to use something hard like Java to do something in CF? Actually, I would call it

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2004-12-13 Thread Tangorre, Michael
From: Kwang Suh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Feel free to challenge them. And feel free to move this conversation elsewhere... ~| Special thanks to the CF Community Suite Silver Sponsor - CFDynamics http://www.cfdynamics.com

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2004-12-13 Thread Dawson, Michael
Maybe I'm the only one that feels this way, but I vote to take this topic somewhere else. Macromedia Forums is usually the best place to have the I hate ColdFusion debates. I, personally, stopped using the forums mainly because of these religious wars. We all know CF rocks, but it's not the

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2004-12-13 Thread Adrocknaphobia
Again, your assumption is that everyone's using Windows. If that's not the case, then you need to factor in the cost of Windows licenses as well as potential server management costs. In addition, you might be able to scale up better with a non-Windows solution (which generally limits you to

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2004-12-13 Thread Spike
Kwang Suh wrote: Kwang Suh wrote: Let's say I have a website I want to cluster on 10 servers. With CF, that's 10 production licenses at whatever cost you can find CF at. With .NET, it's zero cost, so there can be some additional cost savings. I'd like to see the total cost break-down for a

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2004-12-13 Thread Dave Watts
Who said anything about fixing? I'd like more functionality: I'd like to have cftransaction work across multiple databases. And allowed nested cftransactions. I'd like some other number type beside floating point. I'd like a concept of null type. I'd like to have CFCs have interfaces,

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2004-12-13 Thread Dave Watts
I'd say most people run CF on Windows, so they're paying for the Windows licenses on top of CF license. Perhaps, but if they are, do you really think they're so cost-conscious about the price of CF server licensing if they're willing to pay for Windows licensing without batting an eye? I like

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2004-12-13 Thread Jim Davis
Let's say I have a website I want to cluster on 10 servers. With CF, that's 10 production licenses at whatever cost you can find CF at. With .NET, it's zero cost, so there can be some additional cost savings. If you're myopic enough to look at that as a valid comparison then you really

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2004-12-13 Thread Kwang Suh
Kwang Suh wrote: I said I'd like to see the total cost break-down for sites like that, not a list of possible candidates. You doubted that there were companies that used numbers of web servers. I have provided you some. Feel free to ask them. Sean has already answered for you. I don't have

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2004-12-13 Thread Jim Davis
There are no professional CF hosting in Turkey :( So we always need to buy CF to host our projects which should be hosted at different geographical I'm not sure I understand this. If there's no CF hosting in Turkey, why not create some? At the very least it would seem that you could host in

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2004-12-13 Thread Greg Morphis
Kwang, I think I know why you've had so many jobs.. You send all the damn day goofing off and bitching. I'll be the first just to come out and say STFU. You're preaching to the converted, you're wasting your time. Now please, for the love of God, drop it and move on. On Mon, 13 Dec 2004

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2004-12-13 Thread Michael Dinowitz
And at this point I'll have to ask that the conversation be moved to CF-OT or CF-Community. Thank you. Kwang, I think I know why you've had so many jobs.. You send all the damn day goofing off and bitching. I'll be the first just to come out and say STFU. You're preaching to the converted,

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2004-12-13 Thread Damien McKenna
Macromedia is NOT Microsoft. ColdFusion cannot be free at that level. Microsoft sells (rather expensive) servers and supporting tools (SQL Server, Exchange, etc) by taking a hit on .NET. How would MM recoup the massive costs of development for giving away CF? They use the free .NET

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2004-12-13 Thread Dave Watts
No, it is not. My MSDN subscription allows me to run multiple Windows server for non-production purposes. Really? How many concurrent Windows Server 2003 installations can you get from your single MSDN subscription? How many concurrent activations can you get with a single MSDN serial number?

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2004-12-13 Thread Dave Watts
They use the free .NET server tools to sell their development software. Lots of companies do this. No, I don't think this is how it works for MS. I strongly suspect that both their free server tools and their development tools are made available at prices below their actual production costs

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2004-12-13 Thread Dave Watts
When .NET came out, and people started to use and understand it better, the Java community did what every CF person should be doing: they learned .NET. And then they deconstructed it. And then they asked themselves: What can we take from .NET to make Java better I don't know about the

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2004-12-13 Thread Dave Watts
Poor Will. All he wanted was a better ColdFusion. There are two problems with this statement. First, what he thinks is better may differ from what others think is better. Second, his original post here didn't really focus on what he wanted CF to do that it doesn't already do. Instead, he posted

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2004-12-13 Thread dave
the following just plopped into my inbox (after my short rant) i think all the bandwagon jumpers are funny have fun, cfm has always been here probably will always be here, when .net survives as long as cfm then come back and smack yer lips until then, dont let the door hit ya where the good

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2004-12-13 Thread dave
actually what set me off on poor wills original post was him saying that he could build a .net app faster then anyone could in cfm but then he says that its with this great $2500 program (when there are several free cfm ones). And he wasnt comparing apples to apples and if anyone thinks what he

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2004-12-13 Thread Adrocknaphobia
I agree with Dave, adding the null concept would not allow us to make applications we cannot make now. However adding flash remoting did and webservices did. I'd say MM does an extremely good job of picking what features to add, and which to outright ignore. -Adam On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 15:16:29

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2004-12-13 Thread Will Tomlinson
To everyone that posted to this thread, Forta, Corfield, all the CF'ers like me. I'm TIRED of seeing a ton of job listings for ASP.NET and a few for CF!! I'm TIRED of it! What's going on here?? Could someone please explain this phenomenon to me without discussing irrelevant information! If

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2004-12-13 Thread dave
because the ppl who have the cfm jobs arent so damn wishy washy and dont give it up at the 1st sign of a new toy what u said is like saying that when u look in the newspaper for a job say selling cars that there are a crap load more available for the ford dealerships and very few if any for a

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2004-12-13 Thread Rob
wow look at that cobol: Jobs 1 - 30 of 887 matching your search request. c++: Jobs 1 - 30 of 5566 matching your search request. jsp: Jobs 1 - 30 of 1909 matching your search request. java and j2ee: Jobs 1 - 30 of 9341 matching your search request. Um... so perhaps if you are going for

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2004-12-13 Thread Ulf Unger
Hi Jaye, I've seen this graph six months ago. While the headline could be frustrating, look at the red line above them... Ulf Jaye Morris schrieb: Interesting conversation. Just thought I would throw in this reality check. http://tinyurl.com/323mw or the full URL:

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2004-12-13 Thread Rob
Great link :) - The great thing about that is CFML can run on the top 3 (reading .net for asp.net) On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 18:49:19 -0500, Jaye Morris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Interesting conversation. Just thought I would throw in this reality check. http://tinyurl.com/323mw or the full URL:

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2004-12-13 Thread Jaye Morris
Actually, that was my precise point. But thanks. On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 01:06:41 +0100, Ulf Unger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Jaye, I've seen this graph six months ago. While the headline could be frustrating, look at the red line above them... Ulf -- // Jaye Morris | Multimedia - Web

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2004-12-13 Thread Dave Watts
To everyone that posted to this thread, Forta, Corfield, all the CF'ers like me. I'm TIRED of seeing a ton of job listings for ASP.NET and a few for CF!! I'm TIRED of it! What's going on here?? Could someone please explain this phenomenon to me without discussing irrelevant information!

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2004-12-13 Thread Jaye Morris
Interesting conversation. Just thought I would throw in this reality check. http://tinyurl.com/323mw or the full URL: http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2004/03/23/aspnet_overtakes_jsp_and_java_servlets.html On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 18:41:22 -0500, Adrocknaphobia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

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2004-12-13 Thread dave
damn i missed all this! coldfusion will never last, ASP ROCKS and it will be the future!! LMFAO! -- Original Message -- From: Mark Drew [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 09:52:55 +0100 I think I am going to switch to

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2004-12-13 Thread Micha Schopman
Well his point ASP.NET is taking market away from CF is true in this company :) So he has at least one fact :P Ok ok I'll shut up :P Micha Schopman Project Manager Modern Media, Databankweg 12 M, 3821 AL Amersfoort Tel 033-4535377, Fax 033-4535388 KvK Amersfoort 39081679, Rabo 39.48.05.380

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2004-12-13 Thread Kwang Suh
In most languages that support threads, not only can threads be started, they can be paused and stopped. Is that possible using the code that Damon has showed? ~| Special thanks to the CF Community Suite Gold Sponsor -

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2004-12-13 Thread Kwang Suh
ASP.NET is taking market away from CF! WHY? Are you sure? Do you have numbers for that? Either way, you're probably right, but if so, can you show that it's for any technological reasons other than the gullibility of IT managers when it comes to the Microsoft marketing machine? I'd like you

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2004-12-13 Thread Dave Watts
Let's say I have a website I want to cluster on 10 servers. With CF, that's 10 production licenses at whatever cost you can find CF at. With .NET, it's zero cost, so there can be some additional cost savings. Again, your assumption is that everyone's using Windows. If that's not the case,

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2004-12-13 Thread Rey Bango
I agree with you Michael. Rey... - Original Message - From: Dawson, Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 13, 2004 2:38 PM Subject: RE: CF vs ASP.NET! GET YOUR FRESH POPCON!! Maybe I'm the only one that feels this way, but I vote to take

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2004-12-13 Thread Ben Forta
: Kwang Suh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 13, 2004 1:06 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: CF vs ASP.NET! GET YOUR FRESH POPCON!! If you need to do something like that you can easily write it in Java and call the java code from a CFML template. Ah yes, the old use Java when CF

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2004-12-13 Thread Spike
If you need to do something like that you can easily write it in Java and call the java code from a CFML template. Spike Kwang Suh wrote: In most languages that support threads, not only can threads be started, they can be paused and stopped. Is that possible using the code that Damon has

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2004-12-13 Thread Jim Davis
so bad, someone can inform Tim Uzzanti that there're actually busy websites built in CF :-) You'd think he could just look at his logs... CrystalTech hosts several popular CF sites (very well, I might add). I still wonder at the context of the quote (the queote itself has been published her

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2004-12-13 Thread Jim Davis
Ah yes, the old use Java when CF can't do it crutch. I though the whole point of CF was to make it easy for developers to develop. And everything else is hard/takes longer/is more expensive. So why do I want to use something hard like Java to do something in CF? The whole point of CF

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2004-12-13 Thread Kwang Suh
Please don't belittle my comments with such an offhand packaged response. Seriously, I'm not belittling you. I've heard that phrase used so many times for so many situations, it's perhaps an indication to MM that they need to build in some more functionality, especially to keep up with the

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2004-12-13 Thread Aaron Rouse
I do contract work for a rather large oilfield company and have been doing so for several years. I really never get the impression that the costs of the CF software itself is an issue at all for anyone here. CF is the companies defined standard for web applications, yet ASPX projects repeatedly

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2004-12-13 Thread Rey Bango
pain man. Don't give up on CFML. Just diversify a little so you don't get blindsided. Rey Bango... - Original Message - From: Will Tomlinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 13, 2004 5:29 PM Subject: Re: CF vs ASP.NET! GET YOUR FRESH POPCON

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2004-12-13 Thread Ben Forta
, but the numbers do not equate to the hypotheses that it is at ColdFusion's expense. --- Ben -Original Message- From: Will Tomlinson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 13, 2004 5:29 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: CF vs ASP.NET! GET YOUR FRESH POPCON!! To everyone that posted

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2004-12-13 Thread Adrocknaphobia
Obviously there are more ASP based applications than CF. However that is not to say that CF hasn't been gaining on ASP. I really don't know about Dice, I haven't looked at that site since the late 90s, but It seems to me that there are alot more CF jobs than there were last year, and the year

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2004-12-13 Thread Sean Corfield
On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 18:29:02 -0400, Will Tomlinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you do nothing else, do this. Go to dice.com, you know the site. Run a search for coldfusion! Here are the results: Jobs 1 - 30 of 201 matching your search request. Run a search for ASP.NET. Here are those

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2004-12-13 Thread Andy Ousterhout
Is anyone else getting it other than me??? Isn't this a line from Zoolanders? ~| Special thanks to the CF Community Suite Gold Sponsor - CFHosting.net http://www.cfhosting.net Message:

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2004-12-12 Thread Joe Rinehart
Will, This is probably not a good place for this discussion. It's CF-Talk, not CF-Bash. ASP.NET is taking market away from CF! WHY? Are you sure? Do you have numbers for that? Either way, you're probably right, but if so, can you show that it's for any technological reasons other than the

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2004-12-12 Thread Spike
Will Tomlinson wrote: I'm going to bring this one in from the Blackstone Beta thread yesterday because I think we all need to talk about this. I'm not going to rehash most of what's been said in that thread. Glad you're not planning on going over what was said yesterday. There was very

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2004-12-12 Thread Sean Corfield
On Sun, 12 Dec 2004 08:16:04 -0400, Will Tomlinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not going to rehash most of what's been said in that thread. Er, sure you are. You even repeated Tim Uzzanti's quote *in* *full*! It's not a case of right or wrong, just that you're not going to get everyone to agree

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2004-12-12 Thread Jim Davis
Just a few comments. -Original Message- From: Will Tomlinson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 12, 2004 7:16 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: CF vs ASP.NET! GET YOUR FRESH POPCON!! I'm going to bring this one in from the Blackstone Beta thread yesterday because I think

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2004-12-12 Thread Micha Schopman
Both platforms have their own good and bad issues. I have been using CF since the first versions and since the .NET platform was marketed (and the management board showed twinkeling eyes, hey another Microsoft cashcow) also started using C#. I like both, unfortunately management has problems

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