Customer Reviews

Coldfusion Server 4.5 Pro

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I have been developing web applications for the last 4 years in Perl, ASP, Java, and Coldfusion. This product is the best Rapid Application Development product ever created. It is great for beginning developers and robust enough for the most hardened programmer. Its ability to use ODBC as well as Native Drivers and Corba to access Datasources in a variety of formats and DBMS's is perfect for development across different platforms in the Enterprise. Another Reviewer of this project bemoaned the lack of crystal reports from 4.5 to 4.0, it never had CR packaged with it. It does provide a tag called cfreports that integrates with this product. Besides, any developer worth thier wares would write their own reporting structure. Coldfusion provides the scalablity to work with Multimedia components such as Flash as well. Not only that but if you want to expand on the CFML tag language you can write your own in Java. As far as e-commerce is concerned I have used ColdFusion with CyberCash and many other transaction merchants. This product is great and I would recommend it to any one interested in a way to develop your web applications and get an impressive presence on the web fast and with scalability for the future.

I've been using CF for a few years now and I am continually amazed at how much faster development is in Cold Fusion compared to many of the other options. We were able to roll out one product out in 45 days.

Our shop used most of the features and the only real issues we've had were usually fixed in relatively short order. The only really sticky point seems to be with the mail handling tags. They aren't as robust as they should be... However, I know of some businesses where even the Secretaries are learning the basics of CF to do some of the more mundane tasks.

If you are considering this product for E-commerce and are attracted by the fact that it is supposed to support Cybercash do not buy it. The fact is the Cybercash Support is so poor it can seriousely affect your business.

Also Version 4 hade Chrystal reports bundeled with the product which they pulled from 4.5. This is another tool we were expecting to get with the product which was actually removed without prior notice...

We have tried to get support from Allaire but they have never responded... They have a pay per incident support service which is OK when you need support while developing but we do not believe in paying for support when it is the product that is deffective not the developers...

For Intranet and other dynamic web apps it is fine.