If they think that then their business already lost the battle... Eric
-----Original Message----- From: Andy Matthews [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 30, 2007 9:25 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Adobe Nails ColdFusion Cofin Rick... You make compelling arguments. But IMO, if you have to explain the ROI to someone, then you've already lost the battle. There might be a few people that would be convinced by your (compelling) arguments. But most people are going to see that price tag and not even BOTHER reading the rest of the stuff about it. They'll simply think "CF is too much for my budget" and go install PHP or something. andy -----Original Message----- From: Rick Root [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 30, 2007 8:30 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Adobe Nails ColdFusion Cofin On 7/30/07, Sean Corfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > To be honest, the difference between $3,000/CPU and $3,750/CPU is > pretty negligible in an enterprise world. I would agree here. The cost of the server is pretty minor compared to the cost of everything else that goes into building an enterprise environment. Especially when you consider the following: #1 - Coldfusion Enterprise includes a LOT of things that you'd probably have to pay extra for in other environments. #2 - It's a LOT easier to develop advanced applications in Coldfusion versus OTHER environments (IMO, obviously) As a developer working 40 hours a week at a certain "hourly" rate... if I'm even 10% more productive working on Coldfusion versus another environment, that alone makes the COST of Coldfusion worthwhile. Let's say the cost of my employment, including benefits, is about $50/hour. The 10% productivity increase would amount to 208 hours, or an additional $10,000 in work completed in a typical 2080 hour work year. Assuming the life of a Coldfusion 8 license is only 2 years and you're not buying a subscription... that's over $20,000 in savings.. just by using Coldfusion because you can be more productive on it. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Enterprise web applications, build robust, secure scalable apps today - Try it now ColdFusion Today ColdFusion 8 beta - Build next generation apps Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:284821 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
