About your answer to #2...
How is the cost per project cut in half using CF over the other
technologies?
In his case they are a Windows shop so they already have an OS, ASP, and the
DotNet Framework is free.
PHP is also free.
Bob Lehmann
"Ben A" <> wrote in message
news:...
> 1. Yes and no. ColdFusion is but CFML is not (lookup BlueDragon).
> ColdFusion/CFML will run on multiple platforms such as Linux, Solaris, and
> others. I should also note that BlueDragon will integrate with .NET
within
> the next little while.
>
> 2. Licensing is not free, but the cost per project is usually cut in half
> when using ColdFusion over ASP or PHP or JSP. It's really worth the
upfront
> cost, with huge time and resource savings over the course of a single
> project. If you purchase CFMX for Linux, you're paying about the same as
> Windows Server 2003 with ASP included. If you want to save money, CFMX is
a
> good choice.
>
> 3. There are over 300,000 CF developers, not as many as ASP but still
quite
> a large army. It's popularity has skyrocketed in recent years, especially
> now with Rich Internet Applications (RIA) using Flash Remoting and
> ColdFusion together.
>
> Macromedia really seems to have their stuff together.
>
> If you have any more questions, let me know.
>
> Ben
>
>
> "CSDunn" <> wrote in message
> news:...
> > Hello,
> > My boss is considering the purchase of a calendar/scheduler program for
> our
> > school district, and part of the setup calls for the installation of
> > Macromedia's Cold Fusion software. My bosses condition for the purchase
of
> > this software is that the company we are purchasing from support the
> entire
> > application, and that our understaffed I.T. department not have to.
> >
> > I was hoping to come up with an application using the calendar control
> with
> > ASP.NET, but due to the work load of current SQL Server database
projects,
> > there is no way I will have time to even start one for a good while.
> >
> > Anyway, I was hoping to get some feedback about Cold Fusion. This is
what
> I
> > understand about Cold Fusion:
> >
> > 1. Its proprietary to Macromedia
> > 2. The licensing is expensive (so I've heard)
> > 3. It is not as popular now as it was a year or two ago (so I've heard)
> >
> > I don't even know that I need to worry about it if the company we are
> > purchasing from is going to 100% take care of the support for the
product.
> > On the other hand, I need enough information to decide whether or not a
> > product run on cold fusion is going to be enough of a problem to
> discontinue
> > any further consideration of the product. We are a Microsoft shop
running
> > Windows 2000 Server of one flavor or another on all of our servers, and
XP
> > on most of the desktops.
> >
> > If you happen to have knowledge about Cold Fusion that you could pass
> along,
> > or reason that I should have concern about purchasing software build
> around
> > Cold Fusion, please let me know.
> >
> > Thanks for your help!
> >
> > Chris Dunn
> >
> >
>
>
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