From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 20 12:11:10 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B9B116A4DA for ; Thu, 20 Jul 2006 12:11:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mfitzgerald@pacific.net.au) Received: from jay.exetel.com.au (jay.exetel.com.au [220.233.0.8]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B7CB43D5D for ; Thu, 20 Jul 2006 12:11:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mfitzgerald@pacific.net.au) Received: (qmail 17422 invoked by uid 507); 20 Jul 2006 22:11:07 +1000 Received: from 28.101.233.220.exetel.com.au (HELO ?192.168.1.101?) (220.233.101.28) by jay.exetel.com.au with SMTP; 20 Jul 2006 22:11:07 +1000 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v623) In-Reply-To: <000d01c6ab99$3ee24500$6601a8c0@bnetmd.net> References: <000d01c6ab99$3ee24500$6601a8c0@bnetmd.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Malcolm Fitzgerald Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 22:11:06 +1000 To: Glenn McCalley , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD. ORG X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.623) Cc: Subject: Re: coldfusion alternative X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 12:11:10 -0000 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? malcolm