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To Coldfusion or not to Coldfusion

As I have mentioned before, I have started a new job. Our current webserver is running the classic ASP (with Access as it's database, but we do plan to switch to MySQL or MSSQL). Of course, I want to switch it to Coldfusion. I am writing out a proposal to switch to Coldfusion and I am looking for some reasons why we should switch. If anyone can give me some reasons, I will add it to my proposal and once complete, I will post the proposal here so everyone can reference it later.

** UPDATE ** Here are a few bullets on found and came up with:

• Easy and efficient creation of printable web content in the form of PDFs

• Excellent integration with RIAs

• Performance and stability

• Interoperability (we can use .NET objects previously built, Java extensibility, etc.)

• ColdFusion is in use at 75 of the Fortune 100 companies.

• ColdFusion, .Net and MS Exchange are now natively supported

• Create searchable document directories that are instantly available to your ColdFusion applications. Search Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, HTML, XML and PDF documents, and more with the built-in Verity K2 engine.

• Manage all of your ODBC and OLEDB datasources. Verify connections, update usernames and passwords, and connect string attributes.

• Easy server monitoring with MIB support and sophisticated log-file filtering. Yan create and deploy server probes to monitor the health of your server.

• Create ColdFusion Archive (CAR) files to wrap entire applications for easy backup and deployment.

• Manage server access with sandbox security, allowing for multiple developers to coexist in protected environments on the same ColdFusion server

• ColdFusion .NET Integration

Also, I would probably go with Standard as opposed to Enterpise.

Comments
Peter Tilbrook's Gravatar If you need a "reason" to switch to CF then do not. 14 years later and still CF so no need to switch.
# Posted By Peter Tilbrook | 4/9/08 12:41 PM
John Whish's Gravatar Hi,
I posted a blog entry about this recently. My list so far is here:
http://www.aliaspooryorik.com/blog/index.cfm/e/pos...
# Posted By John Whish | 4/9/08 12:44 PM
Chris's Gravatar @John, thanks for the link.

@Peter, I am Coldfusion Developer looking for as many reasons as I can get to convince them to switch to Coldfusion. Not sure I understand what you are trying to say.
# Posted By Chris | 4/9/08 12:58 PM
Chris Dawes's Gravatar BlueDragon is free!! ;-)
# Posted By Chris Dawes | 4/9/08 9:18 PM
Chris's Gravatar The problem I see with Bluedragon is it doesn't have the same tag support so I would be missing all of the new tags. I like where Bluedragon is going with their Open Source idea, but I feel it still needs to be on the same page as Coldfusion, matching at least 95% of the tags or so. Anyways, thanks for the suggestion.
# Posted By Chris | 4/9/08 10:11 PM