Re: lay person question

2006-06-28 Thread James Holmes
The two do entirely separate things. How can a rich client interface technology replace an application server tecnology? On 6/28/06, kurt schroeder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've developed cf for 10 years now, love it, love dot.net too for that matter, but what about Flex? A few people have

Re: lay person question

2006-06-28 Thread Matt Williams
Flex is really just for front-end stuff. It still needs a back-end technology such as CF (or Java or ASP). Somebody blogged recently that Flex isn't really good for regular websites, but is great for intranet applications. I think we'll start to see some pretty cool website stuff too though. On

RE: lay person question

2006-06-28 Thread Ian Skinner
Nope, if anything Flex could lead to much more ColdFusion being used. Flex is a front end, presentation level tool. It can do very little for back end, data and business logic for you. It is designed to integrate with ColdFusion very natively. I am currently building a model/proposal to

Re: lay person question

2006-06-28 Thread Ken Ferguson
Flex is going to replace CF in the same way that carbon-fiber car bodies are going to replace engines. Both have to do with cars, but the statement doesn't make any sense, right? CF is a server-side scripting language and Flex is a new toy for building front ends / GUI's. In order to use Flex,

RE: lay person question

2006-06-28 Thread Steve LaBadie
Ken, Want type of time frame are we looking at? Steve -Original Message- From: Ken Ferguson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2006 11:55 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: lay person question Flex is going to replace CF in the same way that carbon-fiber car bodies

Re: lay person question

2006-06-28 Thread Bryan Stevenson
Nonot by a long shot Bryan Stevenson B.Comm. VP Director of E-Commerce Development Electric Edge Systems Group Inc. phone: 250.480.0642 fax: 250.480.1264 cell: 250.920.8830 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: www.electricedgesystems.com

Re: lay person question

2006-06-28 Thread Ken Ferguson
are we looking at? Steve -Original Message- From: Ken Ferguson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2006 11:55 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: lay person question Flex is going to replace CF in the same way that carbon-fiber car bodies are going to replace engines. Both

Re: lay person question

2006-06-28 Thread kurt schroeder
Well this is what i was hoping for. Thanks everyone. Anyway, the anouncement of a server side element, so i was told, is what started the discussion and the idea of it possibly replacing CF. Thanks Again i asked the question and hoped to get the answers you all gave. Thanks KES I've