The newsgroups and mailing lists are always full of people searching for
decent good value CF hosting, if this makes it more difficult for companies
to offer that service it could be very bad news for CF.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dylan Bromby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2001 6:55 PM
Subject: RE: New CF5 Partner Hosting License
> wow. i'm not sure this is a good idea. if macromedia increases the cost of
> CF dramatically, it makes it easier to choose alternatives whether they're
> free or in the same price range of whatever the pricing under these new
> terms turns out to be.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Colón [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2001 10:39 AM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: New CF5 Partner Hosting License
>
>
> Allaire's Partners just received an email announcing ColdFusion Server 5
> Hosting Service Provider Edition, which
> "consists of a new End-User License for commercial hosting service
> providers."
>
> The gist of it is that Hosting Providers will now be charged extra for the
> privilege of running multiple CF sites
> on a shared server. As far as I can tell, all the new features of CF5
will
> be in the Enterprise edition, so the
> only difference between Enterprise and Hosting is that the latter will
cost
> more. Some value.
>
> I sent Allaire an email registering my strong disapproval of this new
> hosting partner penalty fee, pointing out
> that "GoTech is already subjected to marketplace pressures due to the free
> nature of Microsoft's Active Server Page
> (ASP) technology, and Allaire/Macromedia's continual ratcheting up of
> ColdFusion's price is potentially
> debilitating to our efforts to deploy your product." Perhaps they see
their
> only competition in the
> BEA/WebLogic/IBM/Oracle application server space. This may be the case
for
> Enterprise, but there's no way this is
> the case with hosting providers. We're competing in the trenches with
ASP,
> which is free on NT/2000, and at some
> point the benefits of the CF environment will be outweighed by its cost...
>
> Maybe I'm just jumping to conclusions, and this is actually (somehow) a
> benfit to hosting partners. Thoughts?
>
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