I'm sure too many people will be chiming in, but I just wanted to drop my
two cents worth.
The reason I went with Cold Fusion vs. ASP to develop with was a combination
of ease to learn and cost. It was just at (and still is) my upper end of
pricing to support. This is especially important when it came to learning CF
for the first time. I was just starting out, and didn't have a lot of money
(sort of a delayed-student impoverishment situation). CF was my risk. In
this case it paid off well, though I don't believe I would have chosen CF if
it cost more.
My thought is, increases in price may jeopardize "new young blood". And
while they may not be skilled, and use a lot of support from lists like
this, they do help in the face of the large .asp Mego-beast.
Second, without much cash, I host/own about 32 domains. Not many are active,
many are pointers to others (name variations - for example tallylist.com is
my mailing list resource, so I also grabbed listtally.com). But if I had
(have) to pay per (per what? processor, platform, function & features, IPs,
domains - a combination all of this) - I can quickly see me moving
platforms.
Finally, one of my projects was building a four-city, TV station based
system. I argued (successfully) for Cold Fusion as the back-end. But I did
face resistance, so I'm not sure how much more hard cost they would have
accepted before saying - no: .asp instead. You may argue that they had
money - but the funds all came from different small budgets, each defended
by individual managers. Even large projects might change in scope for the
lack "of a nail" in one small department. In this case - the budget for IT
hardware, capital costs.
So, while I accept pricing changes (they are often reflective well of
changes in market) - I do worry. The strongest, being the most personal, is
the changes to "site licenses for each web site".
How can I continue to have my fancy of developing specific, fun, cool,
frolicking, just plain silly, home-page based, just for the hell of it or
satire based web sites, and keep them all running if I have a hard cost
looking me in the face each time. This is highly specific to programmers who
also build recreationally, and build many small non-commercial web sites.
"Well I could build a small site for the joy of blah, or to ridicule
Stockwell Day (Canadian Politician), but now I've got a hard cost above my
time.
Does this mean so long for the recreational programmer? I would be required
to switch to a platform which doesn't require hard costs (and no saying that
I can re-use the license by taking down the first site. Sort of defeats the
purpose of the web where you can leave information up, or pander to an
uncommon interest.
Yeah, that's my 2 cents worth.
Stephen R. Cassady
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please visit my NON-COMMERCIAL WEB SITES WRITTEN IN COLD FUSION
including:
http://www.tallylist.com
TallyList - where we utilize COLD FUSION TO SUPPORT THE DEVELOPER COMMUNITY
BECAUSE OF THE LOW OVERHEAD AND START UP COSTS.
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-----Original Message-----
i agree with your latter sentiments. we've been developing more and more
non-CF (jsp, php, asp) applications for a variety of reasons. and now i'm
very, very glad. i also agree this doesn't appear to be headed in a positive
direction, but i suppose we need to wait and see what MM comes up with. like
you, i hope they consider this very carefully.
-----Original Message----- From: Jon Hall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent:
Thursday, April 26, 2001 4:09 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: New CF5 Partner
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