At 12:00 PM 8/2/98 -0400, you wrote:
>Peter,
>
>We know that you are a unix/perl fan and there is nothing wrong with that
>unless you become blinded by your likes to the point of not wanting to learn
>what something else is about, or deciding it's inferior without
knowing what it
>is or can do.
No.. I think the point is, what good is a tool when it limits you
? Right now CF limits you to either Solaris on SPARC or WinNT.
And I know that I dislike running on NT. I have found it to be
slower in serving pages than Linux/FreeBSD for even a simple
website. The webservers on NT are way behind Unix (and Apache) feature wise.
With Mysql/Msql and perl you can pretty much be on any UNIX
platform with a simple recompile of your code.
>Cold Fusion is similar in many ways to ASP or PHP. You can even
create your own
>Cold Fusion tags if you want to write compiled code, which means
CF has no real
>limitations. If you want to write code with the default tags (which is what
>most do), your options are still extremely good.
The problem is that depending on the complexity of your page it
can be slow. The interpreted tags (thats what they are) get
interpreted by the CF interpreter and then spit out to your db
generated page. And if you ask any person familiar programming
in interpreted vs. compiled languages they will tell you the
compiled programs are lots faster than interpreted ones. (Just
as C/C++ is lots faster than perl).
>Some info about the next version of Cold Fusion
>"the next release of Cold Fusion
> will add support for multi-tiered load balancing across multiple
> machines, processes and threads, as well as failover and restart
> capabilities. The 4.0 product will also support native database
> connectivity to Oracle and Sybase, major component standards
> such as CORBA, and provide enhanced security. "
Mysql/Msql already can do that (just have multiple SQL servers -
copies of the DB or multiple front end machines). And if you are
doing Oracle on NT there are native means to access the DB. Same
for Sybase and CORBA afaik.
Matt Soffen
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never mind."
- Dilbert -
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