Cold Fusion's not dead...see MySpace
It just dawned on me that MySpace, currently the Web's hottest commodity for the masses, is a Cold Fusion app. In lieu of objective data, deductive reasoning leads me to believe today's dominant server-based web development frameworks are ASP, PHP, ASP.NET, JavaServer Pages/servlets, various flavors of rolled Java apps, and Ruby on Rails - in that order. CF was considered a major player many moons ago, but never really became the huge powerhouse others have, due largely to cost. When it got bought by Macromedia, it mired in obscurity.
And suddenly out of nowhere it made a huge return to prominence as the underlying supporting a monolithic app.
Could this signal a change in the preference for developer's choice in apps? Maybe, if MM plays its cards right and markets effectively.
And suddenly out of nowhere it made a huge return to prominence as the underlying supporting a monolithic app.
Could this signal a change in the preference for developer's choice in apps? Maybe, if MM plays its cards right and markets effectively.
posted by Jason Salas @ 3:01 PM
4 Comments:
At July 26, 2006 12:55 PM,
Lee Madajczyk said…
Actually, there's a post up that states MySpace.com is being migrated over to ASP.NET 2.0, and it seems a lot of the work is already done. The Cold Fusion pages are mapped to the .NET engine to allow bookmarks to keep working. Really makes the case for ASP.NET when you see a lot of the big websites running on it.
The original post is over at Scott Guthrie's blog as Handling 1.5 Billion Page Views Per Day Using ASP.NET 2.0.
At July 26, 2006 2:58 PM,
Jason Salas said…
Hi Lee,
Wow...that's very interesting! Thanks for the knowledge.
At July 27, 2006 3:51 PM,
John Walker said…
Jason,
As these guys mentioned, I know MySpace is migrating to ASP.NET 2.0. In fact they appeared on stage with Bill Gates, I believe, at the MIX 06 conference talking about the performance gains they are seeing with the move.
That being said, I've been exploring Ruby a bit and I'm intrigued with it, although I haven't installed and played with it at all. Your post regarding the RIDE ME IDE screen-casts were cool.
I hope you do some posts on similar web resources and screen-casts to help would-be Ruby people get started.
jw
At July 27, 2006 8:30 PM,
Jason Salas said…
Hi John,
Yeah, I'm starting to find more and more Microsoft devs migrating over to Ruby on Rails. I also offered my software framework marketing services pro bono to the Django community to get that platform some traction. Both RoR and Django are VERY cool. have you check out the latter?
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