Fusion Arena

Hi all,

I am a big fan of the ColdFusion Technology. I develop web applications in that technology for a living. To me CFML just the most intuitive syntax in the world. I have learnt other languages in college but CF was something that I self-learnt due to its easiness and proximity to HTML.

Coming to the core of this thread, sometimes I feel that I am biased towards CF just coz I have coded in CF ever since college (that would roughly be 3 years now).

Now with Microsoft being a much bigger name compared to Adobe (and Macromedia) and most companies wanting to be parnering with Microsoft technologies, there has been a trend of migration to the .NET platform.

Most companies are just revamping their already good applications using ASP.NET just to fit into the majority (or so I feel).

Now sitting down and looking at CF 8 and all the great new features it has to offer, for example:

• Built in Ajax controls
• cfexchange
• cffeed
• cfdocument (since MX 7)
• cfimage
• the .NET integration

Why should one choose ASP.NET over CF 8 to build his web apps?

More specific question would be,

If I already have an application if CF MX 7 or CF 5, revamping into which technology would be really winning? CF 8 or ASP.NET?