Hi, At my company we currently have CFMX 7 installed on our servers. Is there any SIGNIFICANT gains in moving to CF 8? I want to present this to the board and would like as much ammunition as possible Thanks
Depends. If you already have a fairly large site on CFMX 7, upgrading could cause more problems then it solves. If you haven't written a site, yet CF8 is the latest technology (though still a bit old) and could be easier for site development - more features to work with.
That is a really bold statement there blueparukia. I have been involved in countless migrations to CF8 and have never encountered a problem due to versioning, even sites moving from 6.1 --> 8. Adobe strives for complete backwards compatibility with ColdFusion and CF8 no exception. Perhaps you could list at least *one* example of this that you have experienced to back up your statement. As a CF User Group manager, and one who is quite active in the ColdFusion developer community, following the development blogs daily, participating in the CF8 beta program before it was released, etc., I have never heard of a backwards compatibility issue to date. Perhaps blueparukia can share some knowledge with us though. What are the issues that you have seen?
I can't really back it up, since I have only used CF8, but most other languages are like this. If I am wrong, I am wrong. Its always a possibility though.
Your completely wrong I'm afraid. CF8 is completely backwards compatably through to CFMX6.1. Upgrading to CF8 is very worth will and opens up a lot of new features to you. Plus CF8 runs faster then CFMX7. Theres a white paper over @ Adobe somewhere where they have done some testing on tags such as cfparam, cfset etc etc and CF8 runs significantly quicker. I wouldn't hesitate at all - the upgrade is definitly worth it.