I suspect that the point is more that the pricing on CFB is, as of yet, unknown, so it becomes a question of whether you want to spend a lot of time becoming familiar with a product which will likely be a commercial product (with unknown pricing) or with a tool that you know will continue to be free.
Obviously the calculus will change when Adobe finally puts out pricing info for CFB. I suspect that the adoption group will differ depending on whether it is priced at $49 or $349. As for why anyone would think it might cost an arm and a leg, I would suggest that the most likely comparison is to Flex Builder. And as of Flex Builder 3, there are two versions, costing $249 and $699. Visual Studio 2008 comes in at $299 and $799. So it is not unreasonable to presume that CFBuilder would be priced somewhere in that range. Judah On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 9:25 AM, Adrocknaphobia <adrocknapho...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Brandon, > > What would you consider "an arm and a leg"? > > We originally started work on ColdFusion Builder as a feature of ColdFusion > 9. In fact it was a the highest requested feature for CF9 despite the > existence of CFEclipse, Dreamweaver and HomeSite. But as our vision for a > comprehensive ColdFusion IDE grew, it made more sense to turn it into it's > own product. What I mean to say is that we built this for the community, not > to supplement ColdFusion revenue. Adobe isn't looking for a pay day on CB so > you shouldn't expect to have to part with your appendages. :-) > > -Adam > > > > On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 12:02 PM, Brandon <brandonregis...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> I tried CFBuilder for several months and finally got fed up with glitchy >> code-folding. Plus, I don't want to get too used to a tool that's going to >> end up costing an arm and a leg. Eclipse + plugins seems to handle >> everything I need, without beta-testing bugs. >> >> -Brandon >> >> On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 10:51 AM, Adrocknaphobia >> <adrocknapho...@gmail.com>wrote: >> >> > >> > <cfplug> >> > >> > Why not give Adobe ColdFusion Builder a spin? It has built-in support for >> > CF >> > 7 - 9. As well as inline support for HTML, CSS, JS and SQL. >> > http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/coldfusionbuilder/ >> > >> > </cfplug> >> > >> > -Adam >> > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:330540 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
