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From: Malcolm Fitzgerald <mfitzgerald@pacific.net.au>
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On 20/07/2006, at 11:10 AM, Glenn McCalley wrote:

> OK so a good customer of long standing wants a coldfusion website.
> Some "developer", the husband of one of his staff (so that makes him a
> trusted advisor, right?), has convinced him "it's the only way to do 
> it".
> My position is maybe that's the only way -he- can do it but there's a 
> whole
> wide world of alternatives out there.

Well, you know that CF is a database / template / processor. It's a 
great idea but there are plenty of Perl, or PHP / SQL solutions. What 
about Mason? <http://www.masonhq.com>

malcolm