Coldfusion info?

[st0rm3rs]

Hi,

We are using ASP.net C# for our development at the moment.

My boss wants me to find out some info about Coldfusion.

Are any of you guys familiar with Coldfusion?
I would appreciate if some of you can give me some pro's and con's?

 

[.Froot.]

I haven't used it myself but I know my boss moved from Coldfusion to another program.

 

[st0rm3rs]

what is the other program?

 

[radicool]

I've been developing in ColdFusion for 8 years. Unfortunately I don't have any experience in ASP.NET so I can't really give pros and cons versus other web development languages, but I can say that for our requirements, ColdFusion has no cons, and provides a huge amount of advanced functionality, both for back-end processing as well as front-end reporting.

We use it for a 24-hour, 365-day online transaction processing system that processes hundrends of transactions per second, and it operates flawlessly. The biggest con would probably be the cost, especially for the Enterprise edition.

 

[PHTech]

ColdFusion is rather nice to use. The only thing that made me moved to using PHP, is the licensing costs of ColdFusion. Its kinda expensive...! But otherwise, the developing side, is rather cool to use, and is also supported by numerous database types...

 

[coldfury]

ColdFusion is a rapid application development (RAD) environment. The best way to describe it is that ColdFusion makes simple tasks, easy and difficult things possible. We recently built an entire in-house workflow system from scratch on CF with OO principles applied to it. A ColdFusion Enterprise license from Adobe is priced at around R35000 per 2cpu's, and you would probably need two of those. The Enterprise version does allow multiple instances. In the past few months three alternative CFML engines have gone open source, that is Railo, Smith, and in my opinion most notably openBluedragon at http://www.openbluedragon.org/ They don't come with the bells and whistles Adobe ColdFusion offer, but it's worth a look.

Besides the price tag of an Adobe CF license, I can't mention a con for this platform, if you can find developers to code CFML. We struggle to find them ... but have even converted PHP veterans, and they love it.