The application server market is red-hot with vendors, open-source software
developers, and application-service providers competing to be the platform
for business Internet solutions. Businesses, better educated about the
relationship between technology and their bottom line, are again looking at
technology investments as they would any other...money matters.
At the end of the day the application must work - a purely technical
decision. But the cost of development, maintenance, and scalability should
dominate decision making thereafter. These three pillars of a financially
sensible technology solution are composed of development time (how long an
application takes to create), access to IT talent (what does it cost to get
good programmers), and the cost of the software/hardware over time (total
cost of ownership).
On this score Allaires ColdFusion reigns supreme. How... (more)