RE: FN-FORUM cold fusion v/s asp

date posted 29th August 2000 12:56

And does cold fusion have all the functionality that ASP offers?

Stephen Parker

>I have been programming in asp for some time. I would like to
>know if there any benefits of using cold fusion as compared to
>asp.

>off the top of my head:

>*) Cross-platform capability (doesn't have to be on NT)
>*) Therefore possibly cheaper (CF runs on Linux and does
> cheap/free dbs like MySQL nicely)
>*) It's tag based so many people from an HTML background
> find it easier to learn
>*) It scales up into Spectra (Allaire's Content Management System)
> which could be a *nice* stream of work.