Go write your own integration with Exchange and evaluate those man hours ...
On 31/07/07, Dale Fraser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have to agree that I have never had issues selling the benefits of CF and > ROI, it's actually an easy sell. > > I just purely don't understand the price hike, in a market where software is > becoming less expensive and also free, a 25% increase is unjustified unless > there is some new feature that they have included that requires them to > licence in third party products. > > Why this has added a Nail to the Coffin is because they have hurt the > enterprise market, if I want to develop a large enterprise scale > application, which requires multiple servers etc, etc. ColdFusion is simply > too expensive and I will use something else. > > Instead of buying Enterprise I will now (have already) buy Standard. > > PS: If someone would like to explain to me the price difference between > download and boxed, i'd love to hear that story also. In Australia here an > Enterprise box is only $1,104, it must be really shiny. > > Regards > Dale Fraser > > http://dalefraser.blogspot.com > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Rey Bango [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, 31 July 2007 4:46 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: Adobe Nails ColdFusion Cofin > > I completely disagree with this statement Andy. Part of being a > consultant is selling your solution and if a person can't effectively do > that, then they shouldn't be in the consulting business at all. > > What I've seen over the time I've been involved with ColdFusion is less > people that are interested or willing to sell a solution as opposed to > making their $30-50/hr as a contractor. If thats what person wants to > do, then they might be better of choosing a tool like PHP or .Net. But > in my experience, selling customers on ColdFusion, even when I've had to > explain the ROI, has not been an issue. I really believe people > underestimate the intelligence of prospects and thats just not good > business. > > Rey... > > > Andy Matthews wrote: > > Rick... > > > > You make compelling arguments. But IMO, if you have to explain the ROI to > > someone, then you've already lost the battle.... > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Download the latest ColdFusion 8 utilities including Report Builder, plug-ins for Eclipse and Dreamweaver updates. http;//www.adobe.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm?e=labs%5adobecf8%5Fbeta Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:284899 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
