Casey, To further back your case, anyone that is sitting here thinking that they *have* to buy CF for their development is incorrect. You can download a copy right now and use the developer edition for free. So along with your great statement about having clients pay for their hosting, there's no reason why anyone should not be able to effectively use CF for their development.
For those that need good, inexpensive ColdFusion 8 hosting, HostMySite.com has started offering it at $21.95/month: http://hostmysite.com/hosting/builder/ Rey... Casey Dougall wrote: > On 7/30/07, Neil Middleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Small point to bear in mind here, which always pops into my head when I hear > this argument. > > Let's say I am on $50/hr like you say, therefore for myself to pay for CF8 > Ent, I'm looking at working at least 150 hours before it's paid for. OK, I > may be 10% more productive than PHP, but if I were using CF then I would > only save 208 hours per year over PHP (150 are spent paying for the license > as well). > > So, at the end of my year, I'm 58 profit hours up. i.e $2900. If I had more > than one server (say one dev, one test), I'd be out of pocket to the tune of > $4600. It's not such a massive amount after all. > > ~~~ > > Neil > > You think about this all wrong, you should be charging your clients for > hosting, then it's not out of pocket at all. you might take a slight larger > hit for upgrading but in the end your clients flip the bill for hosting > their websites with you. You would never need to work a minute to make up > for the price of coldfusion. > > Casey > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:284991 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
