Why and why not Coldfusion (CFML) ?

Question

When you speak to your colleagues or you want to convince your client to use Coldfusion for some new project and not some other technology or language they heard of before, which arguments do you use?

I'm asking because I'd like to make presentation to put in my company's portfolio and seems that I can't find any real life, non development kind of arguments. Yes, cfquery and cffunction access="remote" make our lives easier, but client doesn't care too much about us, right?

Answer 1

You tell them the only thing they care about, their bottom line. It will cost them less to use CF than X tech they have already heard of.

Why? (you can answer these better than I)

• Your developers are very skilled in CF
• CF gives flexibility in enterprise applications that other frameworks lack
• All the components are stable and mature. This isn't always true of the flavor of the week.

If you think about it, you can turn perceived weakness into strength.

Good luck.

Answer 2

CF bridges the world of .Net and Java allowing you to take advantage of both platforms without the lengthy development times of the either.

Answer 3

Take a look at Adobe's ColdFusion Evangelism Kit:

http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/evangelism_kit/

It was designed to answer exactly these sort of questions.