At 7:38 PM 10/25/1, Thomas Smith wrote: >> Its great that Macromedia is offering a bundle of UD & CF. >> Why doesn't it be fair and offer a special discount for people >> who already have Dreamweaver 4?
I don't know the specific background on that decision, but I do know of two major things that affect such offers: a) finding a set of prices that works across all rationales (eg, "the delta between a DW3->UD4 upgrade should not be disproportional to the delta between a CF4->studio upgrade", that type of balancing) b) each new catalog item incurs an upfront cost for packaging, line-item, ordering, maintaining in catalogs, packaging and maintaining (new offers aren't free, so minimizing catalog items can reduce overall costs) I don't usually work these angles myself, but over the years I've been in a few meetings where this type of analysis is performed, and it has made my head hurt. I can see that it's not arbitrary, but I can't explain it well to others, sorry. In this case it sounds like you have DW4, but not any CF (?), but want to upgrade to both CF5 and UD4. Right now I see upgrade paths to the CF/UD Studio from either UD or CF, but not from DW, sorry: http://www.macromedia.com/software/cfudstudio/productinfo/upgrade/ Hmm, but assuming you do own a version of ColdFusion Studio, then you're eligible for the upgrade anyway. There's just not a line item that combines various upgrade positions, that's all. I know this may not be the happiest of answers, but the above is the unvarnished background info, if that context is of any help. jd John Dowdell, Macromedia Tech Support, San Francisco CA US Search technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/search/ Offlist email risks capture by the spam filters. I may not see your email if it's not on the list. Private one-on-one email options are available via Priority Access: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
