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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)