Sure, $5K is a significant investment depending on your circumstances. But are you saying that the annual maintenance fee for CF is 90% of the purchase price? As in, CFENT costs $5,555 up front and $5,000 for maintenance annually? That would a bit over the top in my book. Or maybe it is 90% of the upgrade price? I think that would be more likely and in which case I'd say 'place your bets!'. In reality the maintenance plans are aimed at the corporate end of the market where they prefer to pay an annual fee rather than have to go through the whole purchase process each time a new version of CF is released.
But I'm sure there are whole fields of study devoted to the question of how to build a sustainable business around writing software. And at the top of the list in terms of difficulty is to build a business around a software product (or products). If the initial investment to write the damn thing doesn't do you in, the ongoing support and maintenance probably will, and finding a way to entice your clients to part with more money to pay for that support and maintenance the hardest job of all. B) Steve Onnis wrote: > CF maintenance is like 10% OFF the price so it is still a fair bit. CFENT > subscription is over 5k so i would want to be getting something for my money > > -----Original Message----- > From: cfaussie@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Brett Payne-Rhodes > Sent: Thursday, 30 October 2008 11:27 AM > To: cfaussie@googlegroups.com > Subject: [cfaussie] Re: CF Maintenance purchase > > > Isn't maintenance an annual charge? So you pay it each year and are covered > from year to year for upgrades? So I don't really agree that they have > anything to honour if you don't take out or renew your maintenance. I don't > know what the fees are on CF but other software I have had on maintenance in > the past has been around 10% of purchase price. In the end it comes down to > a question of whether it is going to be cheaper to pay one or two years of > maintenance rather than the upgrade cost from CF8 to CF9, having just paid > for the upgrade from CFx to CF9. And of course Adobe probably hates this > kind of speculation because the temptation is going to be for you to put off > the upgrade until CF9 is released... > > B) > > > > Steve Onnis wrote: >> I think if you purchase a subscription and nothing is released they should >> either give you a refund or honour the next release when ever it comes > out. >> only fair.. >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: cfaussie@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf >> Of Dale Fraser >> Sent: Thursday, 30 October 2008 11:14 AM >> To: cfaussie@googlegroups.com >> Subject: [cfaussie] Re: CF Maintenance purchase >> >> >> Yes, >> >> CF9 will be released inside of 12 months I think. >> >> Regards >> Dale Fraser >> http://learncf.com >> http://flexcf.com >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: cfaussie@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf >> Of Scott Thornton >> Sent: Thursday, 30 October 2008 10:54 AM >> To: cfaussie@googlegroups.com >> Subject: [cfaussie] CF Maintenance purchase >> >> >> Hi, >> >> Out of curiosity, is there expected to be any new releases etc of > coldfusion >> in the next year? I am trying to decide weather to purchase the > maintenance >> plan with a some new licences... >> >> Cheers, >> >> Scott Thornton, Programmer >> Billing Unit, Hunter-New England Area Health Service >> ext: 51762 p: +61 02 491 51762 m: 0413 800 242 >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > -- Brett Payne-Rhodes Eaglehawk Computing t: +61 (0)8 9371-0471 m: +61 (0)414 371 047 e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] w: http://www.yoursite.net.au --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "cfaussie" group. To post to this group, send email to cfaussie@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cfaussie?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
