It costs a lot of money because it is aimed at the enterprise space - where two rules apply:
1) Almost nobody pays full price. Companies buying this kind of stuff have purchasing departments to beat the price down, and usually buy several licenses for several products, not to mention things like support and consulting, so they get all kinds of discounts. Flex is in the same pricing area as weblogic, oracle, all that kind of stuff. 2) No matter what the software and hardware cost, it's nothing combined to the people. I've seen small - well, medium sized (5-8 people) - projects, and calculated that they were costing more than fifty thousand euros a month, just in manpower. So basically you get imaginary number marketing. Is it worth 12k (let alone 18k) USD? Who knows. The real question is.. is this the most appropriate way to sell flex? As you pointed out, putting this product out of the reach of their most vocal proponents might not be a brilliant idea... /t >-----Original Message----- >From: Rob [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 6:46 PM >To: CF-Talk >Subject: Re: John Dowdell Wants to Know What's Wrong with Macromedia > >On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 18:18:13 +0100, RADEMAKERS Tanguy >> As for this discrepancy being caused by demand... are you >saying there's >> a much higher demand for flex in Europe than in the US? Nonsense. > >Nah, I am saying the level of money you need to get Flex is out of >reach of all the people who want it - wherever they are in the world. >What I see is the people who want it, can't afford it and I don't see >many Flex enabled sites out there so those who can buy it don't seem >to be (I have no idea of the actual numbers). Basically, they have a >customer base, but they refuse to sell it to that base, which I think >is retarded. > >>Part >> of the difference is caused by tax and a higher cost of >doing business, >> but part of it is just MM sticking it to European customers plain and >> simple. They're not alone: pretty much every software product i can >> think of costs more in Europe than in the US. > >Well you know it costs a *lot* to ship those 1s and 0s over sea's. >Seriously though, I think its much of the same as the Euro (and the >pound) are kicking the heck out of the dollar - you must have more >money right? hehehe > >Cheers >-- >~Blog~ >http://www.robrohan.com >~The cfml plug-in for eclipse~ >http://cfeclipse.tigris.org >~open source xslt IDE~ >http://treebeard.sourceforge.net > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Find out how CFTicket can increase your company's customer support efficiency by 100% http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=49 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:190118 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=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
