Ray, You really don't want me to get started on Adobe and the pricing off CFB.
Screw it.... It is overpriced, I use it because I was given a copy for home and it was bought for me at work. Would I buy the next version, no I am going to be very reserved on that. The reason being is that while other products in the Adobe range get constant updates, and other software vendors release constant updates. ColdFusion and ColdFusion Builder get let me see 1 update, in other words unless you pay for the support to get your problem fixed it is not fixed nor is it released in a subsequent update. Adam is clear in saying in the latest CFhour that it is in his team's best interests to move straight onto the next release, and that means that if you are waiting for bugs you are forced to fork out money for another product release. This is wrong, and something adobe should take under consideration. If the current release is actually stopping people from using the product, as people have described, would it not make more sense to be proactive and release more updates and get the product to a more stable product. Hell these bugs have to be fixed sooner or later, and Adobe's attitude is later, and if that means alienating customers they don't seem to care. I strongly advise Adam to listen to his customers, and begin to release more updates/fixes during the 2 years between ColdFusion releases, and to begin releasing more updates for ColdFusion Builder. Otherwise I don't care how good the next version of Builder is I personally will not be buying it, I don't like greed in a company, and this model comes across as greed. Regards, Andrew Scott http://www.andyscott.id.au/ > -----Original Message----- > From: Raymond Camden [mailto:rcam...@gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, 27 January 2011 9:20 AM > To: cf-talk > Subject: Re: why is cf_builder so expensive? > > > On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 4:05 PM, Dave Long <d...@northgoods.com> > wrote: > > none the less. Oh well, they were told at Harvard that "greed is > > good!" Bill Gates set the standard and they all want to be him at the > > expense of their customers. Why settle for being millionaires when you > > can soak your customers and be billionaires. > > Nice. So ColdFusion developers asked Adobe for YEARS to make their own > CFML editor and they do - and they dare to charge $$ for it and now they are > "soaking their customers" to be billionaires. > > Wow. I know I'm the resident Adobe fan boy here but this is completely out > of line. Adobe is a business. They _have_ to make money. Period. > It's a fact of life. If you think they are going to become billionaires by selling > 300 dollar licenses then you are grossly misinformed. If I did my math right, > Adobe would have to sell 3.3 million copies of CFB. > > > > Time to learn PHP, I guess. > > If you feel that charging money for a product equates evil, then perhaps you > should. Is ColdFusion worth _anything_ to you? Do you not make money > writing code? > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:341475 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
