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April 4, 2006MySpace, ColdFusion and ASP.NETPosted 1619 days ago on April 4, 2006At Mix06, MySpace execs announced that they were serving 1.5 billion pages per day on ASP.NET 2.0 and SQL Server 2005. I noted in IT Week that figures like this make it hard to claim that Microsoft's web technology does not scale. Trouble is, if you go along to MySpace you'll find it full of pages with a .cfm extension, as used by ColdFusion. So what gives? Was the Mix06 announcement a shade deceptive? Not according to this post and comments, on Scott Guthrie's ASP.NET blog. Two interesting things. First, as part of a migration from ColdFusion some .cfm pages map to ASP.NET pages; the url has been preserved to avoid breaking links. Second, MySpace uses a product called BlueDragon, which lets you run ColdFusion pages on either J2EE or .NET - without using the official ColdFusion application server. In this case, the CFML markup is actually running on .NET. I should think this is fairly annoying for Macromedia/Adobe. Oddly enough, a ColdFusion architect told me in 2002 that the product might one day run on .NET. I would never have guessed that it would be an agile third party like New Atlanta that would do it, rather than Macromedia itself. Tags: myspace coldfusion mix06 dotnet |
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Re: MySpace, ColdFusion and ASP.NET
Posted 1170 days ago by Daz • • • ReplyThe problem more likely to be that myspace uses Fusebox which is a development framework for Coldfusion.
Nice in principle but, tends to constipate an applications and slow things down.