Very good points, Ken. However, for a hosting business, it is not hard to find a few Linux experts and open your doors to Linux hosters. In a one man shop, it is very smart to focus on your area of expertise. But businesses can take their revenues and expand into new areas if they chose to. As long as they keep the Linux guys separated from the Windows guys! ;)
Personally, I have found at least 3 CF hosts that offered Linux. And those are the ones what are competing for my business (and others like me). The Windows only crowds will never get my business because I am a Linux snob (on the server side, I do use Windows for my desktop). If a Windows only host were to expand into Linux, they could try to undercut the current hosts with features and/or price and capture some of their market. Microsoft does this all the time. Take a look at Internet Explorer and the Xbox. Was the web browser and the gaming market an expertise for MS? No, but they wanted to make more money, so they decided to jump in. Currently IE has 85% of the web's market share. Xbox is in 2nd place in the console market (behind Sony), and I believe that the Xbox 360 will put them into first place (even though I am a Nintendo fan). I think it was well worth it for Microsoft expand their horizons. > -----Original Message----- > From: Ken Ferguson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, November 21, 2005 9:01 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: CF Hosting > > Still, sometimes it's more economically efficient to turn > customers away > than it is to offer something you won't be able to support as well. > Sometimes it's very well worth it to concentrate on your areas of > efficiency. If 10 potential customers approach me to build them an > ecommerce app tomorrow, I'll have to turn several of them > away because > they'll want PHP or ASP. I'm sure I could deliver what they want in > those languages, but it's not what I do and it's not what I > want to do. > It's not my area of maximum efficiency. It's therefore more > prudent for > me to turn away the non CF customers than to offer a choice of > languages. Same thing as offering only Windows or only Linux... > > A lot of businesses have failed for trying to do things > outside of their > areas of efficiency--trying to do more than what they can do best. > > --Ferg ------------------------ [INFO] -- Access Manager: This transmission may contain information that is privileged, confidential and/or exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution, or use of the information contained herein (including any reliance thereon) is STRICTLY PROHIBITED. If you received this transmission in error, please immediately contact the sender and destroy the material in its entirety, whether in electronic or hard copy format. Thank you. A2 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:4:224813 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
