CF vs ASP.NET

[Joe Russo]

Hello,
A client asked what the advantages are to CF over ASP.NET.  He has a
legacy ASP website.  Can anyone suggest any links in support of CF?
Thanks.
Joe



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[Luis Fernando Cox]

Hi:

I don't have a link but I've worked with CF for a while and have a couple of
very good reasons why migrating to CF is a good move:

Microsoft's software is not sound, they do so many upgrades because of
deffects and total lack of quality control ( Windows Vista is a good
example). Therefore MS will have a smaller role in the future of web
applications/platforms (or even dissapear).

Adobe on the other hand is a very solid software producer, even before they
bought Cold Fusion from Macromedia, Cold Fusion proved to be a robust web
development environment. Now that Cold Fusion has been merged with Adobe
apps (PDF, Photoshop features, etc), plus the capabilty to manage AJAX apps,
etc. CF is now like a one stop shop for all kind of web apps.

ASP runs in windows servers only, CF can (and should as any serious web
develepmoent environment) run in Linux servers.

There are plenty of web hosting services that offer Cold Fusion. So you can
outsource the server's connection/maintance and develop and test new apps
before actually buying the server.

CF syntax is very simple. Any ASP programmer can learn it right away, in
your specific case, the programmers who wrote the legacy ASP could
"tanslate" the code. Personally, I hired a ASP jr programmer and tought him
the basics and asked him to read the manual, he told me coding was a lot
simpler and faster in CF and started programming in CF withing a week.

There are several big name websites using CF: The Economist, Myspace, etc
(you know how to tell when an app is developed in CF).

Luis F. Cox


-----Original Message-----
From: Joe Russo <joerusso@...>
To: nycfug <nycfug@...>
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 11:19:53 -0500
Subject: CF vs ASP.NET


Hello,
A client asked what the advantages are to CF over ASP.NET.  He has a
legacy ASP website.  Can anyone suggest any links in support of CF?
Thanks.
Joe





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