Anyone seen a pricing structure for cf5?
We're going to feel pretty ackward if they
actually lower the prices. ;-) If not, then I
agree with you.
-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Colón [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2001 12:39 PM
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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