I know I am going to regret saying this, but what the heck ... Regardless of how anyone feels about the price change, just know that this decision was NOT made in a vacuum. In fact, the team polled lots of ColdFusion customers to ask them their opinion on this. And the general feedback, even from those who would rather we not charge more, was that the price change was fair and not inappropriate.
I know this won't change how anyone feels about it, but just know that we do take the time to research this thoroughly - probably more so than many who are making "definitive" statements on the subject. --- Ben -----Original Message----- From: Sean Corfield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2007 11:09 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Adobe Nails ColdFusion Cofin On 7/31/07, Dale Fraser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What's the deal with people who think that you should be happy to pay more > because there are new features. I think you're completely missing the point: there are many companies out there that view CFMX 7 as "too cheap" at $3k/CPU. They don't think it is serious software so they won't buy it. The increased price actually helps sell to those enterprise companies. And the (frankly) small price hike won't put other enterprises off. If you think enterprise is too expensive, you simply aren't an enterprise company! Hardly any enterprise software costs less than $6k/CPU. Go look at WebLogic and WebSphere (or almost anything from IBM!). Go look at Oracle. Someone pointed at the DataDirect drivers which cost $4k retail - included in CF Enterprise. > That makes no sense what so ever. It makes perfect sense - if you understand the enterprise market. > People are too scared to say what they think > and risk tainting their perfect CF image. No, this thread has 60+ responses already so folks are certainly coming out and saying what they think - and they're mostly not on your side in this discussion because they understand the market better than you do. -- Sean A Corfield -- (904) 302-SEAN An Architect's View -- http://corfield.org/ "If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive." -- Margaret Atwood ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Check out the new features and enhancements in the latest product release - download the "What's New PDF" now http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/coldfusion/cf8_beta_whatsnew_052907.pdf Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:284968 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
