Ive noticed a lot of talk about ColdFusion and have noticed a lot of .cfm sites of late, and the talk about ColdFusion and its future seems to have died and been replaced with new positive talk.
I've always been a fan of ColdFusion, sometimes a critical fan, but in looking at where ColdFusion is now and especially at some of the new ColdFusion 9 features, I really think that Adobe are listening. In fact, most of the features that I've ever wanted in ColdFusion are there now and some of the minor gaps will be plugged further in ColdFusion 9.
ColdFusion is still unmatched in terms of framework, the features and simplicity of how it implements things is far ahead of anything else, show me some ASP, PHP or JSP and I'll show you how I can do it easier and better in ColdFusion.
Unlike ASP, PHP & JSP, ColdFusion isn't free, this is a thorn in a lot of peoples side, it has been in mine, but after recently evaluating Railo & BlueDragon, I came to the conclusion that even if they were 100% free for my needs, I would still pay for ColdFusion. I want the Adobe name, I want the support and large community, I want a product I know is solid and stable and I want all the new features when they are released, not when the others catch up.
ColdFusion 9 & Flex 4 are what we will be using for 2009, we have started already, its a great sign when you start developing large applications in products that aren't even in Beta.
3 comments:
I like what they are doing but sadly my company is about to stop Coldfusion development in favour of PHP and .Net so I'm out of a job at the end of next week and seek is showing nothing in the CF space.
So if you know any CF jobs going in Melbourne feel free to let me know! ;)
bird0fprey (bird 'zero' fprey) at that hotmail site...
Whether U use Adobe CF, Railo CF or BD CF U still use CF - so U still have the community even though you opt out of paying for a CFML-engine ;-) Railo goes very far the Adobe CF way, and it's quick setup in combination with Resin if really great. For me it's all CFML, the engine is of less importance.
I'm an Adobe fan boy aswell but I'm also a big OS fan. I have been following Railo and Open BD and hope that they can open up more developers to CFML.
Post a Comment