Why use ColdFusion?

A question potential clients ask is “Why do you use ColdFusion?”. So, here are my thoughts…

• ColdFusion is a proven enterprise level web application server.
• ColdFusion is owned by Adobe who are responsible for Photoshop and PDF Writer
• ColdFusion is the only platform with native (in-built) support for PDF manipulation and creation - remember Adobe also produce the industry PDF Writer and pioneer the PDF format and PDF reader.
• ColdFusion now has worldclass image manipulation - remember Adobe also produce the industry standard Photoshop.
• ColdFusion is a professional commercial product, so you get professional support from Adobe.
• ColdFusion is great for Rapid Application Development.
• ColdFusion is available as Open Source from BlueDragon.
• ColdFusion can run on multiple platforms and multiple web servers.
• If ColdFusion wasn’t any good then it would have died out years ago, when you consider that PHP, Ruby and ASP.Net are free (although you will have to pay for a Windows server to run full blown ASP.NET).
• ColdFusion has a built-in search engine.
• ColdFusion has built-in scheduled tasks (every tried to do that with PHP!?)
• ColdFusion has excellent database connectivity using JDBC.
• ColdFusion has built-in functionality for consuming and publishing webservices, it will now handle MS generated SOAP webservices.