I found it expedient in some cases, to 'eat' the cost of the Pro (er Standard, which still sounds like a lesser version) version for large (in dollar figure) projects in order to win the contract. $1300 for CF Standard isn't a great deal of cost when you are talking about an initial project of 10k or more and ensuring that your new client will be coming back to CF, and likely yourself, for it's future solutions.
- Calvin ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bryan Stevenson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2003 3:23 PM Subject: Re: DWMX 2004 - Whats new for us? > > I would think one reason is the cost of the CFServer. Every person I've > > talked to that is outside of the CF development world tells me the reason > > they never got into ColdFusion or don't get into it is because of the > cost. > > Although I really enjoy CF, PHP and MySQL are basically free. It's very > > difficult to convince someone to switch from paying nothing to having to > > dump thousand into just owning the license. > > For starters it's not thousands for the standard edition. This arguement is > easily won when you tell the client you can cut development and future > maintenace costs significantly by using CF (being that you can do the same > work in less code). If you need the Enterprise edition then you're looking > at a pricey project to start with and this cost saving will only help you > make the sale in that case. > > Then having to pay for the pipe > > and servers on top of the CFlicense costs. > > Umm....you pay this anyways...last I checked PHP and ASP still required a > pipe and a web server ;-) > > Although we are all aware of the > > numerous ways to cut the costs like leasing the license, it still deters > > people for making the jump. Just my experience when I work with ASP, PHP, > > and JSP folks. The competition is too much for MM when the competitors > > products are free, even with the capability issues that the others don't > > offer. > > See above....money talks ;-) > > Most CF apps do not require a standalone box to run on so the cost of CF > Server doesn't even factor in. If the project is large enough in scale to > need a standalone box, there are manu dedicated packages that will allow ya > to lease the DB and server software which keeps the monthly and upfront > costs low while still giving the benefit in lower development costs....seems > like a pretty damn good deal to me ;-) > > Cheers > > Bryan Stevenson B.Comm. > VP & Director of E-Commerce Development > Electric Edge Systems Group Inc. > t. 250.920.8830 > e. [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------- > Macromedia Associate Partner > www.macromedia.com > --------------------------------------------------------- > Vancouver Island ColdFusion Users Group > Founder & Director > www.cfug-vancouverisland.com> This list and all House of Fusion resources > hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. > > http://www.cfhosting.com > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=t:4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com
