Poll: Cold Fusion or ASP? Vote today

[Carl Uman]

Our office is switching to web development and I would like to know your opinion. Basically the apps will be data display and updates to MS SQL server. The batch processing will mostly be taken care of on SQL server.

So what should we use Cold Fusion or ASP? If you could add info please post your insight.

Don't forgot the click on the poll/vote icon for the polling.

Thanks,
Carl

 

[andri]

JSP

Of these two, I'd prefer CF.

 

[Train]

CF, ASP, and JSP all pretty much serve the same purpose. You will notice no major difference in them

For speed alone:
JSP > ASP > Cold Fusion

For easiest to learn:
CF > ASP > JSP

but learning depends on what you know already, if you know HTML, CF will be easy to learn, if you know VB, ASP is best, if you know Java, C++, or Javascript, JSP will come easier to you.

For Cost:
CF > JSP = ASP

ASP is free with any NT or Win2k server, or even Win 9x, im pretty sure JSP is free too, but you have to buy a priocey licenses from Allaire for a Cold Fusion server, or find a host that has CF support

For Availability of Help:
ASP > CF > JSP

There is tons of free help (and code) out there for ASP, mostly because it was pushed by M$, CF has a decent amount, but JSP is rising quick, a lot of people are picking up JSP. But for CF you mostly have to rely on Allaire, which doesnt leave many options.

For Scalability,
Any are good.

Personally I like ASP because I started as a VB programmer and i can basically do the same code, and i can call DLL's i made in VB really easy from ASP, and DLL's blow away any scripting language as far as performance and power. New languages include ASP+ and C# both basically newer MS versions of ASP and JSP/C++, which are part of that .NET thing, if you have Win2k, they are free, and very nice to use.

 

[Ladi]

And certainly don't forget PHP

~Ladi

 

[pmark]

I say ASP because you are using Sql Server. With ASP you can call SQL server stored procedures. I'm not sure if you can do that with the other ones.(but alfter thinking of it you probability can...)

 

[Train]

yes, you can use stored procedures from all of them.

 

[andri]

FUD alarm

Stored procedures are SQL-specific feature, they do not depend on the method of accessing the SQL base.

 

[Carl Uman]

Thanks for all the great feed back. We were leaning on the ASP side but someone suggested CF so I thought I'd get a few more opinions and hopefully some facts to help make our decision.

Anyone else got some info. Don't forget to vote

 

[Davegod75]

I HATE Cold Fusion

 

[Carl Uman]

One last pass.

 

[thirdkind]

I have nothing but positive things to say about CF. In two weeks I learned the basics of the language and built a news and article update utility for my site, and all of the content is now dynamically generated. I had never used database interactivity before, and I learned it in no time.

Ease of use is CF's main feature, but don't let its simplicity fool you. Once you really delve into the language, it's extrememly powerful.

 

[Engine]

I've used both, and while I _like_ asp better (possibly because I have more eperience with it), it doesn't get much easier to use than CF. And like thirdkind said, it actually is quite powerful. If you go download CF's documentation you'll see that they have _hundreds_ of utility functions built into the language that make things much easier.
I don't think that you can really go wrong either way.

 

[KB]

I prefer ASP because I started programming using VB and I can often reuse the same code in an app that I wrote for ASP. Also it can be used with Personnal Web Server and IIS 5.0, both of which are free.

 

[Carl Uman]

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