As far as scaleing CF runs the number 5 site on the internet MYSPACE.COM. CF is very fast for development. It currently runs on CF 5 and is moving over to New Atlanta's Bluedragon.Net implemtation of CFML. On the question of CF's future I don't see that as an issue there are now 3+ other implementations of CFML by other companys. 2 in full release Coral and BlueDragon. Coral is a desktop implementation and BlueDragon is a full J2EE and.NET implemtation of CFML. It is the fastest and easyest language to build and consume web services. And easyest for publishing content to the web. If you need heavy lifting that you want more speed you can develop directly in java or.NET or C or C++ and make calls to that from CF.
As far as scaleing CF runs the number 5 site on the internet MYSPACE.COM. CF is very fast for development. It currently runs on CF 5 and is moving over to New Atlanta's Bluedragon .Net implemtation of CFML. On the question of CF's future I don't see that as an issue there are now 3+ other implementations of CFML by other companys. 2 in full release Coral and BlueDragon. Coral is a desktop implementation and BlueDragon is a full J2EE and .NET implemtation of CFML. It is the fastest and easyest language to build and consume web services. And easyest for publishing content to the web. If you need heavy lifting that you want more speed you can develop directly in java or .NET or C or C++ and make calls to that from CF.