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• Created in 1994 it is the very first language created from the ground up for application development on the Internet. ColdFusion predates JSP, PHP, and even ASP.

• Combines highly approachable scripting, effortless connectivity to enterprise data, and powerful built-in search and charting capabilities.

• ColdFusion MX enables web developers to easily build and deploy dynamic websites, content publishing systems, self-service applications, commerce sites, and more

• Moving to the new Java technology-based architecture in ColdFusion MX provides a variety of benefits to ColdFusion web developers, including broader deployment options, seamless interoperability with Java and .NET technologies, and native support for content encoded in double-byte languages (such as Chinese and Japanese).

• ColdFusion applications specific to a unique business process can be developed relatively quickly and inexpensively

• The modular, template driven nature allows integration of Web-based applications that are not ColdFusion based. Also, ColdFusion is flexible in that it is compatible with a variety of database types, such as Oracle, MS-SQL, Postgre, Access, and others.

• ColdFusion is used by over 10,000 organizations worldwide and runs on over 125,000 servers.

•  ColdFusion the language can also be used on top of other application servers, J2EE application servers, providing an alternate and simplified scripting syntax for those high-end servers

• The significant majority of ColdFusion installations run on Windows and use Microsoft back-ends (SQL Server, for example).

• ColdFusion is the leading commercial (as in paid for) application server, and is second only to ASP in published pages. ColdFusion is used by over 75% of the Fortune 100.

• ColdFusion is not proprietary. There are several other products (from other vendors) that have implemented CFML (or parts of it)

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