downloadsquad.com — Ben Forta and Adobe are getting into full swing with ColdFusion 8 Scorpio Pre-Release tour. Last night Ben gave us in Seattle a taste of things to come. Here is why it will kick the tar balls out of everything else on the market.
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jeremiahxApr 24, 2007
Hmmm that could be why I have about 12 hours of billable work as a CF consultant on a daily basis... yep it's a dead language alright!
dyogenezApr 25, 2007
@opesNot exactly hard information to verify."In use at 75 of the Fortune 100 companies and at more than 10,000 other companies worldwide, ColdFusion MX is one of the most widely adopted web technologies in the industry. Here's a partial list of customers (with links to case studies) who rely on ColdFusion for its signature server-scripting environment."<a class="user" href="http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/proven/">http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/proven/</a>
warloochApr 25, 2007
ColdFusion has a "free" development version. Plus it runs on mulitple platforms and connects to multiple databases. So, in your example you can setup your LAMP and replace PHP with ColdFusion (or be a more versatile developer and support both languages as well as others instead of bashing a product without proper research).
lefteApr 25, 2007
I should probably alert Bank of America that my online banking is using CF too. They might want to get on recoding it in .NET or Ruby or something just for fun, because, you know, it's cheaper.
jammerApr 26, 2007
"Ajax World"? Sounds to me like you're a noob web developer.
kookiekrookApr 27, 2007
You seriously need to learn a lot more about Enterprise Web Development. Then come back and write like a grown up.Being the Webmaster for your World of Warcraft guild doesn't qualify you for much. Other than a good laugh.
jammerApr 27, 2007
I know all about it a-hole: it's called J2EE. Read it, learn it, live it. You seriously need to start using real tools to build Enterprise Web Development projects, and PHP for everything else.Douchebag.
cjordanMay 9, 2007
@elfman:Amen brother... Amen. I can get far more done in CF in a short period of time than in .Net.
cjordanMay 9, 2007
@mrurc:Right on, brotha! I don't think there's much to add to that! CFRocks!
sado196Aug 7, 2007
To run ASP.NET you have to purchase a windows license... total cost of ownership far exceeds the purchase price for Standard edition of ColdFusion which has more functionality built into it than ASP does.Oh yea... last time I checked ASP.NET was closed source too...
sado196Aug 7, 2007
DW (Dream Weaver) is not ColdFusion... its a separate product and most people who develop in CF have moved over to the free IDE CFEclipse built on Eclipse. Not trouble free either, mind you... but not bad at all.
zmanzorekSep 7, 2007
My experience with “developers” who say ColdFusion is dead or PHP is better, don’t know how the platform works. They are the ones stuck in CF 1999 days, and have no comprehension what has happened since then with the product.
zmanzorekSep 7, 2007
Well I may have the answer for you. Please check out my Adobe.com article that solves this same issue you are having. "Clearing template cache automatically through the ColdFusion gateway" <a class="user" href="http://www.adobe.com/devnet/coldfusion/articles/cacheclear.html">http://www.adobe.com/devnet/coldfusion/articles/cacheclear.html</a> You can also use this for refreshing verity collections as well.<a class="user" href="http://www.adobe.com/devnet/coldfusion/articles/verity_eventgateway.html">http://www.adobe.com/devnet/coldfusion/articles/verity_eventgateway.html</a>
zmanzorekSep 7, 2007
They run to FREE because they don't understand that actual development and maintenance is the most expensive over the life of your applications, not the $1,200 for a CF license. Oh, and ColdFusion is free, BlueDragon and others are available if you can?t afford $1,200 or $19.95 a month for CF 8 hosting.