At 06:40 AM 5/11/01 -0700, you wrote: >Adam, > >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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