Re: Request for argument..
Re: Request for argument..
- Subject: Re: Request for argument..
- From: Arturo Pérez <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 21:45:24 -0500
On Jan 5, 2004, at 2:05 PM, Derek Bryan wrote:
I do not at all feel that ColdFusion is a suitable environment to write
something this complex, but I am having trouble coming up with a
compelling
argument against it that is written in a tactful way. I would really
rather
not piss off the client, who is a CF-junkie.
I did a big project (series of products, actually) in ColdFusion back
in 1998.
These are the things that made me say "Never again!"
1. Does not scale. We had both MS and Allaire in to help tune our
cluster
when we reached a few hundred thousand customers. They each blamed the
other.
We had something like 10 NT boxes. At least one would crash every day
and they
were running nothing but CF & IIS.
2. If CF was missing functionality then the only recourse was to code
COM objects
to provide it. Since we were a Unix shop that presented something of a
problem.
3. Poor database abstraction. The CF capabilities for database access
essentially
returned result sets in _column_ major format. Boy did I grow to hate
that. And
not being able to do any sort of abstraction like EOs was so
frustrating.
4. Odd XML syntax. (Had to throw that in there :-)
I like WO much much nicer. :-)
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