That's a common misconception out there, at least I've seen it many times. While you are collecting hard data, you might also want to mention why, in part, ColdFusion got this nastly little rap.

ColdFusion is easy to learn. Therefore, it brings in programmers who are not necessarily from a programming background. That's important, because the base knowledge of expensive versus efficient coding practices are not always there. Therefore, ColdFusion is definately going to yield some non-Enterprise worthy solutions. Good programmers and architecture, however, can definately get the job done right.

Compare Java to ColdFusion. I believe Java is a lot harder to become a guru at than ColdFusion. And along the way, the sub-par programmers might get weeded out. So while Java is an excellent application platform, it doesn't have the stigma CF has.

But for tag-based solutions, CF, ASP, PHP, whatever, It comes down to proper architecure and programming, and not the platform.

-Erik

> -----Original Message----- > From: John A Smith [mailto:john.smith@ed.ac.uk] > Sent: Friday, May 11, 2001 6:12 AM > To: Fusebox > Subject: RE: ColdFusion is NOT suitable for Enterprise Solutions > > > Adam > > Our MIS systems are an Oracle shop, but they have plenty of > CF apps running > that use Oracle as the back-end datastore. > > Cheers > > John > > john.smith@ed.ac.uk webhelp.ucs.ed.ac.uk > Information Tools +44 131 650 6915 Phone > Computing Services +44 0870 131 2788 eFax > The University of Edinburgh, Main Library > George Sq., Edinburgh EH8 9LJ > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Adam Reynolds [mailto:Adam.Reynolds@unilever.com] > > Sent: 11 May 2001 13:11 > > To: Fusebox > > Subject: ColdFusion is NOT suitable for Enterprise Solutions > > > > > > Discuss... > > > > > > > > We are in the process of doing presentations on various > technologies and I > > really ripped into Oracle WebDB the other week and expect them to be > > gunning for me. I'm doing a presentation on CF, including > the new CF5 > > features. > > > > In lunch today this came up, that CF was not suitable for Enterprise > > Solutions (sheesh). > > > > I also want to emphasise speed of development during the > presentation. > > > > So what I need is links, examples, papers, the lot. > > > > Best Regards, > > > > Adam Reynolds > > ColdFusion Web Developer > > ISMG Development, Unilever > > London > > > > ( +44 20 7822 5450 (ext 5450) > > m: +44 7973 386620 > > * adam.reynolds@unilever.com > > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm

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