Coldfusion

[Pirate]

Anyone worked with coldfusion? I've got an intranet that runs on this and its slow, crappy and full of errors. Is it worth sticking with or trashing it and going with a mysql & php system?

Also do you have to pay to run coldfusion on your server? I've read that its not free to run.

[plext]

Coldfusion is indeed not free. If your company does not have licences and you get audited, it will cost plenty.

It is a very good platform however when properly used and hooked to a decent SQL server.

MySQL is not going to be free for commercial use either.

It would depend upon the auth model and cost for which I'd go for. The CF/SQL/IIS triad is very nice for integrated auth within NT/2000/2003 domains and if already paid for, you should probably look at ironing out the bugs.

On the other hand, if they are unlicenced and auth is not of major concern, MySQL/Apache/PHP will no doubt be cheaper, plus you are already familiar with it.

[plext]

Further thought also raises the question of development costs. The existing system, while buggy, is evidently running and debugging for better speed should not be a huge issue unless the code is really chronic.

PHP would need to start from scratch.

Guess you need to balance it all out and see which way the advantage lies.

[Pirate]

Thanks dude. The system Im going to be working on is pretty busted so I might see if they want to switch to php. I think it would take longer to learn and fix the coldfusion. Shit, I might even pimp vbulletin to them as it already has all the stuf they want. This is indeed going to be fun.

[Fenaughty]

I use ColdFusion at work and found it to be quite easy to use and learn, the downside is the limited resources to find info, as the macromedia forums are really bad for answering questions. That said it can be a very powerful engine but i have found it slow on my SQLBase DB.
No experience in PHP so I cant compare the language, but I say go with what you know and pimp your skills.

[jwalit]

I have mainly been using JSP's(Java Server Pages), but recently got a job at a company where we are using PHP and I must say PHP is by far the easiest language to program in and its major advantage is its combatibility with JavaScript.....
PHP and MySQL is the best combination I have found so far!

[Junkhead]

I come from a java/jsp background. At work I use ColdFusion/Oracle and it's quite easy to use and performs very well. The functionality is pretty good, and you can drop back to java to acheive anything the language dosn't provide, as well as integerating java and com components very easily. ColdFusion is written in J2EE, and your code compiles to java classes. Can't comment on PHP