Adrocknaphobia 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.
Adam, I think the main issue for many is that CFBuilder ORM capabilities are the real selling point over CFEclipse. Once people migrate to CF9, there will be a real reason to buy it. At this point, most of us are stuck with CF8 or less so CFB that much better than the alternative. I am using CFB beta 3 and it isn't ready for prime time yet. I hope Adobe engineers are hard at work updating b3 into b4 and are not going to rush the boxed version out the door yet. I sure hope that those engineers weren't on a RIF list. I want Adobe to make money so they can keep employees on the payroll and support us developers with documentation and training. My hope is that they will have a beta 4 that will fix the significant issues with beta 3. I think that $150 to 200 for CFB would be a fair price if it relieves me of having to reinstall CFEclipse and mess with a bunch of plug-ins, etc. If the funds would go to an active development team, I would be very happy. You probably would be too. Right now, I consider a price of $250 like Flex Builder to be too much for most people outside of high end companies. I did put it in my budget for 2010, but that was before I used it extensively. Thanks, Roger -- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/8/a4/60 Twitter: http://twitter.com/RogerTheGeek MissHunt: http://www.misshunt.com/ (Home of the Clean/Dirty Magnet) CFinNC: http://cfinnc.com/ ColdFusion Conference in Raleigh ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:330573 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
