Andy,
A company's primary purpose for its existence is to make money.
If CF were made available for free, who is going to pay for the
developers' time and product support? ASP is not really free if you
think about it. Microsoft had already factored in the costs of ASP into
the price of every copy of Windows OS sold.
-----Original Message-----
From: Andy Matthews [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2006 8:36 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: Flex 2 and Ben Forta
Actually, yes, I do think that $1200 for the server is excessive. Seeing
as
how CF is the ONLY language that makes you pay for the engine.
PHP = free
ASP = free (with the windows OS)
Java = free ( I beleive )
Perl = free
Python = free
Ruby = free
Are you seeing a pattern here? I personally LOVE Coldfusion and I'm not
complaining about it at all. But I do think that it should be free, not
because I don't see a value in it, but because I want CF to proliferate.
It's such a great language that if it were "free" LOADS of people would
be
using it. Because WHY NOT? It's powerful, easy to use and fun.
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ICGLink, Inc.
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