On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 08:09:34 -0800, Sean Corfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 16:16:48 +0800, James Holmes > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "Can you afford the upgrade?" is another question worth asking. At least > > FOP and some of the other solutions are free :-) > > free as in beer? I suspect there's quite a bit of time and work > involved in learning to use FOP and setting it up on top of your CF > server. > > The ability to just wrap your code in <cfdocument format="pdf"> is > worth quite a bit. And you can easily add page headers / footers. And > of course you can generate FlashPaper just as easily if you want. > > People need to look a little deeper at the costs involved in some of > this free stuff...
FOP is not too hard but... I totally agree with you Sean, there are extra costs (mostly in time) to using quite a bit of free software. The trouble is, if you want $5.00 and I don't have $5.00 I have $1.00, what choice do I have? It's not that people and companies are cheap, most of us just simply don't have the capital right now - and it's easier to get Larry to work an extra 5 hours getting OpenWidget to work then it is to get the CIO to let me by ClosedWidgetXQ. The economy for everyone but the top 2% still very much sucks. However, I would assume the Blackstone upgrade would be around the same cost as most other CFMX upgrades which if I recall was quite reasonable... -- ~Blog~ http://www.robrohan.com ~The cfml plug-in for eclipse~ http://cfeclipse.tigris.org ~open source xslt IDE~ http://treebeard.sourceforge.net ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:190104 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
