>1) Product differentiation - holding back a few key enterprise level >features has always been the differentiation between Std and Ent. Holding >some features back for Ent may actually make the Std cheaper for the rest of >us.
I would be fine with that if there were another 'step' or two between the pricing of Standard and Enterprise. That's quite a leap in pricing. >2) Cost - if there was a higher cost associated with adapting the 32 bit >version to run on 64 bit they may want to pass along some of that cost to >the people most likely to be demanding it the most/loudest, high end >customers. Cost could be time or it could be a cost associated with any >bundled 3rd party components within CF that had to be relicensed for 64 >versions. I just find it hard to believe that 32bit -> 64bit was a significant development cost compared to the rest of the 'enterprise' features that you get for the $7k for enterprise license. >I would guess that as 64 bit slowly takes over that all versions of CF would >eventually be available as 64 bit. There are other Ent features that have >trickled down into Std and I would think 64 bit would be similar. I guess my point is that I'd be awfully grumpy if 6 months down the road (or a few weeks down the road for that matter) they decide... oh well.. here.. here's a standard edition 64bit build. Right after I got all my servers done. That'd BITE... especially since we bought 8.x specifically so we would could run 64bit. Oh well. Live and learn, I suppose. Just damned annoying... it's not like it would cost them much in development to just have it out there. -- Jeff Schoby Unix/Network Admin City of Columbia, Missouri 573.874.6320 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;192386516;25150098;k Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Linux/message.cfm/messageid:4403 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Linux/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.14
