ColdFusion is Alive! Partial survey results

Some of you may have read the Computer World article listing ColdFusion as one of 10 dead languages and Ben Forta's response, Ray's opinions and Adam's rant on this. Obviously ColdFusion is not dying but how do you convice your clients that CF is the right solution? I am giving a talk at CFUNITED-07 on “Selling ColdFusion to Clients” that will cover what strategies to use for selling ColdFusion to clients and how to deal with common objections that clients have.

People have been telling me what arguments have been working on the street. Let me know your experiences at the survey at http://mdcfug.org/surveys/survey.cfm

Here are the partial results to date on this. I will give the full results at CFUNITED

What issues have you heard when selling a ColdFusion solution to clients?

• Cost of CF server     83%
• Not made by Microsoft 41%
• CF slow 33%
• Not a real language 33%
• Not Object Oriented 25%
• Not secure 25%
• Other 33%

What arguements have you made for using ColdFusion on a project?

• Rapid development 91%
• Easy to maintain code 66%
• Made by Adobe 75%
• 11 years old 66%
• Lots of built in functions 66%
• Open standards 25%
• Multiple vendor support 25%
• Other 8%