I said since day 1 when adobe was annouced taking over that they should have a free version, especially with their already deep roots in the schools.
But you can't take out some of the stuff like cfmail, hell just give schools a license. The funny thing is cfmail could be one of the biggest reasons to actually give it to them. You see all these designers and such make these flash apps and the only processing they use is for sending mail, like a contact form and so of course they are taught php to do it. Then when they get in the real world and have to learn more programming they of course go with php. Now if the school had cfm they of course could learn that mail tag a lot quicker and then they'd probably continue on with cfm because that's human nature, it's not rocket science either. One of the biggest pitfalls for cfm is that these students are taught in school that coldfusion is very expensive and it will cost them $1200 just to try it, so of course they stay well clear of it. These are ppl that use shared hosting and as we all know means they don't actually have to pay anything for for cfm but instead they go to php. That and since php has so many "free" apps but thats our fault. ~Dave the disruptor~ ---------------------------------------- From: "Mark Fuqua" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2006 4:03 PM To: CF-Talk <cf-talk@houseoffusion.com> Subject: RE: Flex 2 and Ben Forta Free ColdFusion could work. It would have to work for Adobe too though. How about adding one more level... ColdFusion Basic FREE no cfmail, cfchart, cfr's, cfc's, cfforms, no mysql support (essentially the old free version of Blue dragon). License limited to one domain. ColdFusion Standard (renamed professional?) 1200 (although 900 looks better) ColdFusion Enterprise $5000 Adobe would benefit from increased market/developer share as more people became acquainted with the power and simplicity of ColdFusion, then the benefit of ColdFusion "Professional" for 1200 would be easy to grasp. And once a company needs enterprise level software, $5k is not much, especially if all your apps already run on coldfusion. Mark ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:234000 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
