[WEB4LIB] Re: An Informal ColdFusion Survey

[John Creech]

I'll chime in with Raymond.  We've been using PHP and MySQL for a couple
of years and are happy with the combination.  The software is free, and
the only real costs are a couple of good books and man/woman hours to
develop the necessary skills to implement the software as part of a
solution. And MySQL is FAST. We considered Cold Fusion and other
proprietary products but chose this combo for the cost; haven't regretted
it.

John Creech, Central Washington University Library

On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, Raymond Wood wrote:

> Hi,
> Just a quick comment: you should probably consider looking at the 'open'
> PHP as a more progressive alternative to the proprietary Cold Fusion.
> PHP is 'cross-platform friendly' to the best of my knowledge, and just
> surpassed the 'being used on 5 million websites' mark quite recently.
> 
> See http://www.php.net for more info.
> 
> HTH,
> Raymond
> 
> On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 09:09:13AM -0800, Donald Barclay wrote:
> > We are looking at using ColdFusion to serve databases via the Web, etc. I
> > know a lot of Web4Libbers are running CF, and I have some questions about
> > exactly how you folks are doing it:
> > 
> > 1. What version of ColdFusion are you running?
> > 
> > 2. What operating system are you using to run ColdFusion?
> > 
> > 3. What kind of Web server are you using in conjunction with ColdFusion?
> > 
> > 4. Is there anything you would do differently if you had ColdFusion to do
> > all over again?
> > 
> > If there are more than a few replies, I will summarize the final tally for
> > the list.
> > 
> > Donald A. Barclay
> > Houston Academy of Medicine-                         always the beautiful
> > answer
> > Texas Medical Center Library                         who asks a more
> > beautiful question
> > dbarclay at library.tmc.edu                                     --e.e. cummings
> > 713-799-7120
> 
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