Ben Forta

14 responses to “.gov Powered by ColdFusion”

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   Marcello Frutig

   2003-10-24

   Unfortunately, these numbers are different here in Brazil: jsp 7930, cfm 15500, php 72000, asp 167000.
   This will probably be a topic during your presentations next week here in Brazil 🙂

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   Jack P

   2003-10-24

   I believe it! We use it here at Wright Patt 🙂

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   David Ringley

   2003-10-24

   I have used it at: United States Postal Service, National Institutes of Health, Office of Thrift Supervision, US Mint, Department of Transportation and Department of Education.

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   Ryan Hagan

   2003-10-25

   I work for a division of the Army Budget Office (ABO) in Blacksburg, VA (Go Hokies!). Pretty much the entire ABO uses ColdFusion for their web applications, and it’s a gigantic organization. In other words, don’t discount .mil in your searches, you’ll probably find similar results.

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   lca

   2003-10-26

   Unfortunately, the enterprise architecture initiatives in a number of federal agencies are effectively removing CF from their approved technologies. Not even being essentially Java is going to change that reality.

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   Doug Gibson

   2003-10-27

   Yes, when job hunting a couple years ago I was surprised at how much the US gov uses CF as well – probably for its ease of use. I’ve worked at National Imagery and Mapping Agency, The Office of Personnel Management, and Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (US Army) and used or have seen it used there.

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   Robby

   2003-10-27

   Ica, just curious. Do you have any stats to back this up? Or is it just a ramble. not to make it a flame, but halfsided comments without any reference material do get kinda old.
   Cheers
   Robby

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   Tom

   2003-10-27

   Here are the numbers for the .mil sites:
   ASP=244,000
   CFM=67,100
   PHP=5,330
   JSP=4,470
   All in all, a respectable showing.

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   lca

   2003-10-27

   Robby, here’s one of many.
   http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/os/windows/story/0,10801,83128,00.html

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    Peter Tilbrook

    2003-10-28

    Different results in Australia also:
    HTML: 641,000
    HTM: 564,000
    ASP: 254,000 + 19,700 for ASPX
    CFM: 108,000
    PHP: 27,000
    JSP: 26,500

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    Calvin

    2003-10-28

    Ica,
    I don’t see any specific relationship between that article and ColdFusion. In fact that article seems to primarily reference desktop applications and applications in support of those. No mention of ASP or application servers is made. Nor is the article exclusionary. Got anything with more bite to it?

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    Sandra Clark

    2003-10-28

    I actually wrote an internal white paper that showed where ColdFusion could fit in the Federal Enterprise Architecture (Component Based Architecture). The Technical Reference Model (TRM) specifically states that it is not intended to provide or endorse particular vendor products so the lack of inclusion of a specific product in the TRM or CBA should not be construed as enjoining it’s use.

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    Charlie

    2003-11-26

    Hello from good old Europe.
    Here are the numbers from Austria(not Australia!!!):
    php:1,350,000 asp:854,000 jsp:150,000 cfm:92,000
    and Germany:
    php:4,610,000 asp:2,030,000 cfm:906,000 jsp:903,000

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14. 

    Courtney Payne

    2003-12-23

    US Department of Education’s Intranet (Content Mgmt/Portal/Document Management/Online Community) = 100% CF.

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