ColdFusion 8 Wins SIIA Award & CF8 Review

Great CF8 news all around. First, SIIA announced last night the winners of the 2008 Codie Awards. ColdFusion 8 was named the winner in the Web Services Solution category. http://www.siia.net/codies/2008/winners.asp

Infoworld just posted an article on the winners..

Also, A ColdFusion 8 review posted today in Software Editorial, A UK-based online magazine that specializes in software reviews and recommendations. The review is very favorable, with some great quotes pasted below.

Highlights of the review:

"Companies choose ColdFusion to create complex and robust mission-critical applications for internal and external access. While there are a number of ways to integrate web content with relational data, it is a simple task with ColdFusion, and the support for modern technology (Ajax, .NET and Java) is a valid reason to consider using this product."

"So many positives. The application administration interface is simple and intuitive – it should be no problem for anyone with experience administering a web site or application. And I like the new server monitor, which is an impressive Flash application that is as well organized as any administration interface I've used over the years."

"I believe the ability to dynamically generate PDFs is indispensible. Anyone that ever had to handle source and version control for documents at any company will be pleased that they can keep just one version of each document and let ColdFusion create PDFs as needed. Very nice."

"This is a good product for companies already using older versions of ColdFusion, or companies looking to move older legacy systems to a newer, more robust solution that easily integrates the application and relational database data. The interface is intuitive, just like Adobe's other products, and I did not encounter any errors during my tests. I have used other Adobe products to create and support web applications, but like that ColdFusion lets me build applications – not just linked HTML pages – for use on the internet."

Software Editorial

ColdFusion Review

http://www.softwareeditorial.com/InternetWebDesign/coldfusion.html

May 21, 2008

By Mike Hubbartt