James Marshall

Okay, I'll keep this brief: Our in-house websites run on CFMX 6.1 and were built using Fusebox 4. Our backoffice system is a COBOL legacy application, and over the years the system has grown cumbersome. We have performance issues that we need to address, but we largely know what needs to change and bit of server optimisation would probably also provide benefits. A new backoffice system (coded in .NET) is being rolled out and upper management think that the solution is to outsource development of a .NET web solution to tie into it. The development team just want CF8 licence upgrades and a few months of scheduled development time and believe we could save our company huge amounts of money. The current websites are already being refactored, but are only slated to have a further 12-18 months lifespan and the management are due to green light the outsourced development shortly (before our new systems and optimisations have time to prove their worth). So I ask you: Is this a lost cause, or is there an argument we can present to delay a decision long enough for management to see the benefit of our improved applications? Have any of you successfully challenged a proposal to move to .NET (or Java) and convinced your company that CF is up to the job? If so, how did you do it? Any information or links to comparisons would be greatly appreciated...