No, free isn't the main consideration, but it certainly helps. Not just the cost to me, but also to clients who want to deploy my apps in-house...I can save them $1300 everytime they want to buy an app.
If I replicate the app completely and don't have to change it at all for each customer and allow them to customize it at will, and they have a basic server, hardware and software from MS, which they must have to get any use from the server anyway, then they only have to pay for my app to use it. No extra $1300 investment. I can sell a replicated app for $50 a pop, and still make money with ASP.NET. With CF, I've got to charge $1350 to make $50 and watch sales dry up because the cost is too high. That's the biggest concern. And the jump from static sites to dynamic sites, automated use of email, etc, that I went to when I first got into CF 4.5 was a FAR greater jump than from CF 4.5 to CFMX 7. As far as I can tell, it's just more efficient ways to do the same things that I do now. The basics, create dynamic apps that users can can deploy to add, update, delete, and report information is still the same basic functionality. I can create dynamic email newsletter systems, and many other things that I've dreamed up, but not yet had time to work on. No, I don't see any reason to upgrade to simply better ways to accomplish the same functionality. As far as trusting software, cost doesn't determine value. When I moved from Access, which did cost me money, to MySQL a few years ago, which is completely free, I made a good investment in software...and it cost me less to do so. So just because something costs more doesn't make it better. No, I don't want to learn ASP.NET 2.0 and C#, but it seems that for the future, for the reasons I've stated above, it will provide greater ROI...and that's what we're all after. Rick -----Original Message----- From: Dave Watts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 05, 2006 11:31 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: ASP.Net book for CF programmer > I know it may be the norm, but I still don't have to like > it...it's not like it was a $75 piece of software. > > And I've learned from multiple upgrades in prior years of > other software and systems that there're always problems with > upgrading. I've witnessed them on this list. > > I just haven't had a compelling reason to upgrade...I've > learned to live without new bells and whistles when I have a > stable, productive, money-making setup. "If it ain't broke, > don't upgrade"... I really don't know what you expect (or want) to hear. If CF 4.5.1 SP2 does everything you need it to do, and you can't imagine why you'd want to upgrade, don't upgrade. If you really can't justify paying for CFMX 7, don't buy it. Sure, upgrades can cause problems. In exchange, they provide new functionality. You have to decide whether the new functionality is something you want bad enough to be willing to work through upgrade hiccups. As for the price, would you really trust your business to a $75 piece of software? You've presumably been using CF 4.5.1 since it came out, which is about seven years ago. Do you think that was a worthwhile investment? Did it pay for itself? If so, why wouldn't you expect CFMX 7 to do likewise? Because, that's all that really matters. It doesn't matter whether Adobe offers an upgrade price for a seven-year-old product, it doesn't matter whether it's $75 or $7500 or whatever - the only thing that matters is return on investment. You're asking about ASP.NET because it's free. Is your time free? Because it's almost certainly going to cost you more to learn another environment than it will to buy CFMX 7 and learn its new features. If you want to learn ASP.NET and C#, more power to you. It's good to learn new things, and there are lots of things that you can do with .NET. But if your justification for doing so is because "it's free and CF isn't", you're devaluing the most important asset you have - your time. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ Fig Leaf Software provides the highest caliber vendor-authorized instruction at our training centers in Washington DC, Atlanta, Chicago, Baltimore, Northern Virginia, or on-site at your location. Visit http://training.figleaf.com/ for more information! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:239734 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
