Re: Adobe Nails ColdFusion Cofin

2007-08-06 Thread Tom Chiverton
On Friday 03 Aug 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> flash remoting ­ just use WebORB if you have BD

Last time I looked, WebORB was the same price again as BD.

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Re: Adobe Nails ColdFusion Cofin

2007-08-03 Thread Dinner
On 8/3/07, Eric Roberts wrote:
> Most companies that are using enterprise level products will not use the
> free versions of linux because there is no support for them.  Ey need to
> have someone to call and be able to fix ASAP if something breaks.  That
> would require one of the paid versions of linux that has a support plan,
> like RHE.

That's besides the real point we're getting at though.

You don't /have/ to buy RH, to run RH (legally).  You could hire a work-
study for pennies on the dollar, and get better support than that which
comes with a Support Subscription (I've found this to be true with every
product we've bought support for, BTW).
  Replace work-study with "poor computer dude", if applicable.

That is the difference, and it might be the difference that makes the
techs that offer that advantage overtake those that don't.

All that said, for all I know, this philosophy makes slaves of us all, or
something like that- in the end.  It sure seems nice from here, tho. =]

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RE: Adobe Nails ColdFusion Cofin

2007-08-03 Thread Dale Fraser
While I started this thread.

I would not recommend anyone move to Blue Dragon to save money. There is not
that much price difference at the enterprise level, you don't have the Adobe
brand and support behind you and most importantly you don't have all the
features.

We use

Cfreport, flash remoting, cfexchange and will use the new image, zip and
lots of the ajax stuff which BD doesn't have. I actually think cfreport is
one of the great unsung features of CF and with CFPRINT it gets a bit
better. Imagine E-Commmerce online store, where whenever an order is placed
you get an invoice or dispatch document automatically spit out on someone's
printer, how cool is that.

I'm not even sure how BD have a market, there is probably merit to offering
a free version for non commercial use and hooking you in, this is really not
much difference than developer edition (without the water marks). But it's a
different mindset perhaps.

For me to consider BD it would seriously need to be half the price or less.

Regards
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From: Larry Lyons [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
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>> >> We use it at here at ATCC. But given this price increase we'll
>> probably be moving over to Blue Dragon.
>
>Now *THAT* is perfectly reasonable.
>
>As long as you keep in mind that you're giving up a lot of features
>that Adobe Coldfusion offers that Bluedragon does not currently offer,
>like flash remoting, event gateways, cfreport, flash forms,
>cfexchange, cfpresentation,
>
>Rick

We don't use flash remoting, cfreport, flash forms, cfexchange or
cfpresentation. The gateways may be a problem (given a couple of projects
involving real-time data collection from a couple of DNA/PCR analysis
robots) but a possible work around may be using JMS. For most of what CF8
offers, Blue Dragon offers the same, and where it doesn't, there are open
source java projects that we can integrate with our apps if we need that
functionality. 

Essentially it was not a decision I was involved in (being just a peon when
it comes to the bean counting stuff), but I can see the rationale used by
the PHB's. The decision was about making a leap from cfmx 6.1 to either BD7
or cfmx8. The costs for upgrading from our current setup to BlueDragon7 plus
a 2 year subscription was less than half the cost to upgrade 10+ servers to
CFMX8 with no subscriptions at all.

Moreover in terms of compatibility, I've had to change nothing so far to
accommodate the switch, and deploying to JBoss is much easier than jrun. 



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RE: Adobe Nails ColdFusion Cofin

2007-08-03 Thread Eric Roberts
Most companies that are using enterprise level products will not use the
free versions of linux because there is no support for them.  Ey need to
have someone to call and be able to fix ASAP if something breaks.  That
would require one of the paid versions of linux that has a support plan,
like RHE.

Eric

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Use Debian! :)


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How...you are paying license fees for those OS's.  If you want the stable
version of Red Hat Linux...you have to buy RHE.  Fedora is the bleeding edge
and thus non-stable version that is used as a test platform.

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Re: Adobe Nails ColdFusion Cofin

2007-08-03 Thread Larry Lyons
>> >> We use it at here at ATCC. But given this price increase we'll
>> probably be moving over to Blue Dragon.
>
>Now *THAT* is perfectly reasonable.
>
>As long as you keep in mind that you're giving up a lot of features
>that Adobe Coldfusion offers that Bluedragon does not currently offer,
>like flash remoting, event gateways, cfreport, flash forms,
>cfexchange, cfpresentation,
>
>Rick

We don't use flash remoting, cfreport, flash forms, cfexchange or 
cfpresentation. The gateways may be a problem (given a couple of projects 
involving real-time data collection from a couple of DNA/PCR analysis robots) 
but a possible work around may be using JMS. For most of what CF8 offers, Blue 
Dragon offers the same, and where it doesn't, there are open source java 
projects that we can integrate with our apps if we need that functionality. 

Essentially it was not a decision I was involved in (being just a peon when it 
comes to the bean counting stuff), but I can see the rationale used by the 
PHB's. The decision was about making a leap from cfmx 6.1 to either BD7 or 
cfmx8. The costs for upgrading from our current setup to BlueDragon7 plus a 2 
year subscription was less than half the cost to upgrade 10+ servers to CFMX8 
with no subscriptions at all.

Moreover in terms of compatibility, I've had to change nothing so far to 
accommodate the switch, and deploying to JBoss is much easier than jrun. 

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Re: Adobe Nails ColdFusion Cofin

2007-08-03 Thread Tom Chiverton
On Thursday 02 Aug 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Fedora is the bleeding
> edge and thus non­stable version that is used as a test platform.

This is a gross missrepresentation. Fedora Core is perfectly stable and usable 
in production.
What it is not is *supported* - if anything goes wrong with CF you can't phone 
Adobe till you've rebased to RHE.

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Re: Adobe Nails ColdFusion Cofin

2007-08-03 Thread Tom Chiverton
On Friday 03 Aug 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> That's too much work hehehe :­D  Plus time is also money, so even if I go
> that route, it is not free.


It's not like you have to build it yourself, CentOS have ISOs and what have 
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Re: Adobe Nails ColdFusion Cofin

2007-08-03 Thread Tom Chiverton
On Thursday 02 Aug 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Yes, we were able to.  It was something like $520 for two years.

So, even if you had to pay twice to get CF7 and CF8, that's still cheaper than 
buying it outright.

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RE: Adobe Nails ColdFusion Cofin

2007-08-02 Thread Oğuz_Demirkapı
Use Debian! :)


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From: Eric Roberts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2007 11:12 AM
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Subject: RE: Adobe Nails ColdFusion Cofin

How...you are paying license fees for those OS's.  If you want the stable
version of Red Hat Linux...you have to buy RHE.  Fedora is the bleeding edge
and thus non-stable version that is used as a test platform.

Eric


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RE: Adobe Nails ColdFusion Cofin

2007-08-02 Thread Eric Roberts
That's too much work hehehe :-D  Plus time is also money, so even if I go
that route, it is not free.  

Eric

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On 8/2/07, Eric Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I did look into getting RHE at one point for my dev server since
> that was the supported version.  You cannot just download a copy of RHE
> without the support package.
>

Of course, you could download the sources for RHEL and build it
yourself, which is what the CentOS and White Box distros do.  The
license that you are paying to Redhat is really for access to the RHN
and response time on any issues you have.



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RE: Adobe Nails ColdFusion Cofin

2007-08-02 Thread DURETTE, STEVEN J (ATTASIAIT)
You are correct, I just did it a little while ago (about March).  Saved
a bundle!

Steve
 

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From: Dawson, Michael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
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But, you can renew a subscription, correct?  I was with the
understanding that you make the first initial purchase of CF, then you
can choose to purchase CF subscriptions for as long as you need.

For example, before your two-year subscription expires, I thought you
could renew that subscription without having to pay the full price
again.

Please correct me if I'm wrong.

M!ke

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From: Dale Fraser [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
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No it doesn't.

It says 12 months or 24 months, so it's a bit of pot luck. Although 8
releases in 12 years, the odds for a release in 2 years are good. This
might be the first one that was more than 2 years not sure.

Regards
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RE: Adobe Nails ColdFusion Cofin

2007-08-02 Thread Eric Roberts
Fedora and RHE are 2 different critters.  So if you want RHE...you have to
pay for it.  I cannot comment on JBOSS as I an mot familiar with how they
charge.  I did look into getting RHE at one point for my dev server since
that was the supported version.  You cannot just download a copy of RHE
without the support package.

Eric

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Bump.  j/k =]

On 8/1/07, Sean Corfield wrote:
> > On 8/1/07, James Holmes wrote:
> > > Well, sort of. Enterprises often use SLES, RHEL; versions of Linux
> > > that are not free.
>
> On 8/1/07, Dinner wrote:
> > Quite different from paying license fees tho, isn't that?  In fact,
that's
> > kind of like what I'm talking about.
>
> I don't remember pricing up RHEL under maintenance but here's
> something I did look at:

Yeah, I get the whole 6 of one argument, but I was thinking more
along the lines of: you don't /have/ to pay for support.  I don't think
jboss or redhat restrict what's available to the general public.  ( I
don't know really, it's been a while since I used stuff besides fedora
or centOS or whatnot.  SuSE, at least when we were paying for it,
was selling support, not the OS itself-  & we payed from the heart ;)

I like the idea of four dudes throwing a bunch of cheap hardware
together and creating some cool thing- why not make it easy to
make things better for everyone?  Give those heads who have
only gumption and know-how a freaking chance- a niche, if you
will.

Of course it's really a dozen of this or a dozen of that in the
end- but one's a baker's dozen! =-P
__
I don't mean to come across like I know what I'm talking about,
there could be huge factors I'm not considering, etc..
Like I've said before- it's fun to watch it all unfold =]


PS- you still gotta pay for that hardware somehow, and traffic,
so no matter what, "it" costs.  Perhaps in the long view there is
not as much difference as one would think.  Eh.**  Back to CF!



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RE: Adobe Nails ColdFusion Cofin

2007-08-02 Thread Eric Roberts
How...you are paying license fees for those OS's.  If you want the stable
version of Red Hat Linux...you have to buy RHE.  Fedora is the bleeding edge
and thus non-stable version that is used as a test platform.

Eric

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Quite different from paying license fees tho, isn't that?  In fact, that's
kind of like what I'm talking about.

On 8/1/07, James Holmes wrote:
> Well, sort of. Enterprises often use SLES, RHEL; versions of Linux
> that are not free.
>
> On 8/2/07, Dinner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > By this argument, no "enterprises" use Linux, Apache, etc.- or some
> > strange logic like that.  Does that sound correct?



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Re: Adobe Nails ColdFusion Cofin

2007-08-02 Thread Jim Wright
On 8/2/07, Eric Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I did look into getting RHE at one point for my dev server since
> that was the supported version.  You cannot just download a copy of RHE
> without the support package.
>

Of course, you could download the sources for RHEL and build it
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RE: Adobe Nails ColdFusion Cofin

2007-08-02 Thread Leitch, Oblio
Yes, we were able to.  It was something like $520 for two years.



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But, you can renew a subscription, correct?  I was with the
understanding that you make the first initial purchase of CF, then you
can choose to purchase CF subscriptions for as long as you need.

For example, before your two-year subscription expires, I thought you
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again.

Please correct me if I'm wrong.

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Re: Adobe Nails ColdFusion Cofin

2007-08-02 Thread Jochem van Dieten
Ben Forta wrote:
> I know I am going to regret saying this, but what the heck ...
> 
> Regardless of how anyone feels about the price change, just know that this
> decision was NOT made in a vacuum. In fact, the team polled lots of
> ColdFusion customers to ask them their opinion on this. And the general
> feedback, even from those who would rather we not charge more, was that the
> price change was fair and not inappropriate.

I am very happy with the new price point of ColdFusion and especially with the 
fact that European customers are now paying prices that are on par with US 
prices.

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RE: Adobe Nails ColdFusion Cofin

2007-08-02 Thread Dawson, Michael
But, you can renew a subscription, correct?  I was with the
understanding that you make the first initial purchase of CF, then you
can choose to purchase CF subscriptions for as long as you need.

For example, before your two-year subscription expires, I thought you
could renew that subscription without having to pay the full price
again.

Please correct me if I'm wrong.

M!ke

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No it doesn't.

It says 12 months or 24 months, so it's a bit of pot luck. Although 8
releases in 12 years, the odds for a release in 2 years are good. This
might be the first one that was more than 2 years not sure.

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Re: Adobe Nails ColdFusion Cofin

2007-08-02 Thread Tom Chiverton
On Thursday 02 Aug 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> releases in 12 years, the odds for a release in 2 years are good. This
> might be the first one that was more than 2 years not sure.

And was probably delayed because Macromedia got bought mid-way in the CF8 
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RE: Adobe Nails ColdFusion Cofin

2007-08-02 Thread Big Mad Kev
The idea of subs with all products is to make the upgrading cheaper, thus
you keep the subs going your ensure your upgrade path is cheaper, I would
suggest if you have subs and no free upgrade this time discuss with Adobe,
as I'm sure it says One Major Release in that time.

-Original Message-
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How So?

A Sub is for 24 months, which means you get free updates for 2 years. There
hasn't been an upgrade for more than 2 years, which means you got nothing
for your sub $ if you purchased CF7 + Sub when it got released.

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On Thursday 02 Aug 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> Wrong, CF7 came out more than 2 years ago so everyone who bought a
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RE: Adobe Nails ColdFusion Cofin

2007-08-02 Thread Dale Fraser
No it doesn't.

It says 12 months or 24 months, so it's a bit of pot luck. Although 8
releases in 12 years, the odds for a release in 2 years are good. This might
be the first one that was more than 2 years not sure.

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The idea of subs with all products is to make the upgrading cheaper, thus
you keep the subs going your ensure your upgrade path is cheaper, I would
suggest if you have subs and no free upgrade this time discuss with Adobe,
as I'm sure it says One Major Release in that time.

-Original Message-
From: Dale Fraser [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: 02 August 2007 11:44
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: Adobe Nails ColdFusion Cofin

How So?

A Sub is for 24 months, which means you get free updates for 2 years. There
hasn't been an upgrade for more than 2 years, which means you got nothing
for your sub $ if you purchased CF7 + Sub when it got released.

Regards
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On Thursday 02 Aug 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> Wrong, CF7 came out more than 2 years ago so everyone who bought a
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RE: Adobe Nails ColdFusion Cofin

2007-08-02 Thread Dale Fraser
How So?

A Sub is for 24 months, which means you get free updates for 2 years. There
hasn't been an upgrade for more than 2 years, which means you got nothing
for your sub $ if you purchased CF7 + Sub when it got released.

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On Thursday 02 Aug 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> Wrong, CF7 came out more than 2 years ago so everyone who bought a
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Re: Adobe Nails ColdFusion Cofin

2007-08-02 Thread Andy Allan
Exactly ... subscriptions are good.

On 02/08/07, Tom Chiverton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Except the sub. gets you support, and you'll probably have renewed, so you'll
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Re: Adobe Nails ColdFusion Cofin

2007-08-02 Thread Tom Chiverton
On Thursday 02 Aug 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> If you bought 7 then, with the two year subscription, then that
> subscription had expired before 8 was released so you got no benefit.

Except the sub. gets you support, and you'll probably have renewed, so you'll 
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RE: Adobe Nails ColdFusion Cofin

2007-08-02 Thread Big Mad Kev
If I remember correctly the Subs said one Major Upgrade (well they did for 6
upto 7) So you may have a case there? But you should always renew your subs
its always cheaper. 

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ColdFusion 7 came out in February 2005.

If you bought 7 then, with the two year subscription, then that
subscription had expired before 8 was released so you got no benefit.

If you happened to buy ColdFusion 7 from August 2005 onwards, woo hoo.

On 02/08/07, Tom Chiverton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thursday 02 Aug 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> > Wrong, CF7 came out more than 2 years ago so everyone who bought a
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>
> How so ?
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Re: Adobe Nails ColdFusion Cofin

2007-08-02 Thread Andy Allan
ColdFusion 7 came out in February 2005.

If you bought 7 then, with the two year subscription, then that
subscription had expired before 8 was released so you got no benefit.

If you happened to buy ColdFusion 7 from August 2005 onwards, woo hoo.

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> On Thursday 02 Aug 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> > Wrong, CF7 came out more than 2 years ago so everyone who bought a
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>
> How so ?
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Re: Adobe Nails ColdFusion Cofin

2007-08-02 Thread Tom Chiverton
On Thursday 02 Aug 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> Wrong, CF7 came out more than 2 years ago so everyone who bought a
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Re: Adobe Nails ColdFusion Cofin

2007-08-02 Thread Dinner
Bump.  j/k =]

On 8/1/07, Sean Corfield wrote:
> > On 8/1/07, James Holmes wrote:
> > > Well, sort of. Enterprises often use SLES, RHEL; versions of Linux
> > > that are not free.
>
> On 8/1/07, Dinner wrote:
> > Quite different from paying license fees tho, isn't that?  In fact, that's
> > kind of like what I'm talking about.
>
> I don't remember pricing up RHEL under maintenance but here's
> something I did look at:

Yeah, I get the whole 6 of one argument, but I was thinking more
along the lines of: you don't /have/ to pay for support.  I don't think
jboss or redhat restrict what's available to the general public.  ( I
don't know really, it's been a while since I used stuff besides fedora
or centOS or whatnot.  SuSE, at least when we were paying for it,
was selling support, not the OS itself-  & we payed from the heart ;)

I like the idea of four dudes throwing a bunch of cheap hardware
together and creating some cool thing- why not make it easy to
make things better for everyone?  Give those heads who have
only gumption and know-how a freaking chance- a niche, if you
will.

Of course it's really a dozen of this or a dozen of that in the
end- but one's a baker's dozen! =-P
__
I don't mean to come across like I know what I'm talking about,
there could be huge factors I'm not considering, etc..
Like I've said before- it's fun to watch it all unfold =]


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so no matter what, "it" costs.  Perhaps in the long view there is
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Re: Adobe Nails ColdFusion Cofin

2007-08-01 Thread James Holmes
You could throw in $799 per server per year for a SLES standard subscription:

http://www.novell.com/products/server/howtobuy.html

On 8/2/07, Sean Corfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 8/1/07, Dinner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Quite different from paying license fees tho, isn't that?  In fact, that's
> > kind of like what I'm talking about.
> > On 8/1/07, James Holmes wrote:
> > > Well, sort of. Enterprises often use SLES, RHEL; versions of Linux
> > > that are not free.
>
> I don't remember pricing up RHEL under maintenance but here's
> something I did look at:
>
> JBoss support / maintenance can very quickly reach $100k / year for
> even a moderate server farm (for the app server, Hibernate, clustering
> etc - all of which JBoss prices separately). Comparable with annual
> support for WebLogic (or WebSphere no doubt - but I only did a direct
> comparison of JBoss and WebLogic). The difference in costs between
> WebLogic and JBoss came down the initial license fee (about $400k for
> the setup I was evaluating). ColdFusion 8 Enterprise would be $120k in
> the context of that (a 32 CPU farm) which actually makes CF8 "cheap"
> compared to JBoss (assuming you actually pay the support fees) and
> very cheap compared to WebLogic.

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Re: Adobe Nails ColdFusion Cofin

2007-08-01 Thread Sean Corfield
On 8/1/07, Dinner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Quite different from paying license fees tho, isn't that?  In fact, that's
> kind of like what I'm talking about.
> On 8/1/07, James Holmes wrote:
> > Well, sort of. Enterprises often use SLES, RHEL; versions of Linux
> > that are not free.

I don't remember pricing up RHEL under maintenance but here's
something I did look at:

JBoss support / maintenance can very quickly reach $100k / year for
even a moderate server farm (for the app server, Hibernate, clustering
etc - all of which JBoss prices separately). Comparable with annual
support for WebLogic (or WebSphere no doubt - but I only did a direct
comparison of JBoss and WebLogic). The difference in costs between
WebLogic and JBoss came down the initial license fee (about $400k for
the setup I was evaluating). ColdFusion 8 Enterprise would be $120k in
the context of that (a 32 CPU farm) which actually makes CF8 "cheap"
compared to JBoss (assuming you actually pay the support fees) and
very cheap compared to WebLogic.

Just a price point for a relatively small "enterprise" project.
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Re: Adobe Nails ColdFusion Cofin

2007-08-01 Thread Dinner
On 7/31/07, Ben Forta wrote:

> I know this won't change how anyone feels about it, but just know that we do
> take the time to research this thoroughly - probably more so than many who

Hey Ben, I'm sure there were meetings upon meetings- I'm talking more
philosophical/future, looking at "now" vs. "last quarter" or whatnot.

I think CF will be fine for a bit, but the times, they are a changing.

That's it.  I don't care, really, besides a leaning towards the future, or
whatnot.  Getting the newbs, keeping pace, all that good stuff.
Keeping the language alive.

I'm vested, obviously, after the years, but the patterns and whatnot is
what I've been digging on- that's applicable in a bunch of places.

This thread has gone on so long because the whole price bit has
been a "factor" for CF since a long time ago.  If it's not done right
it can destroy the language, so no rush, but still...
**
I think for the speed increase alone, it's good for the extra Gees,
personally.  Bravo on the whole deal, it's an excellent piece of
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Re: Adobe Nails ColdFusion Cofin

2007-08-01 Thread Dinner
Quite different from paying license fees tho, isn't that?  In fact, that's
kind of like what I'm talking about.

On 8/1/07, James Holmes wrote:
> Well, sort of. Enterprises often use SLES, RHEL; versions of Linux
> that are not free.
>
> On 8/2/07, Dinner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > By this argument, no "enterprises" use Linux, Apache, etc.- or some
> > strange logic like that.  Does that sound correct?

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Re: Adobe Nails ColdFusion Cofin

2007-08-01 Thread Dinner
On 8/1/07, Andrew Scott wrote:
> I also have to say that Groovy and Grails are awesome as well...
>
> We use both here, and I am impressed.

Heh.  Yeah.  I keep saying PHP and whatnot, but those are
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Re: Adobe Nails ColdFusion Cofin

2007-08-01 Thread James Holmes
Well, sort of. Enterprises often use SLES, RHEL; versions of Linux
that are not free.

On 8/2/07, Dinner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> By this argument, no "enterprises" use Linux, Apache, etc.- or some
> strange logic like that.  Does that sound correct?
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Re: Adobe Nails ColdFusion Cofin

2007-08-01 Thread AJ Mercer
BlueDragon have come out with a price comparison

http://blog.newatlanta.com/index.cfm?mode=entry&entry=AE646136-1572-8D1B-6BB3123E7B8B1DE2



On 8/2/07, Eric Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Nope...just good competition that will just improve CF in the long run.
>
> Eric
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Vince Bonfanti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2007 8:17 AM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: Re: Adobe Nails ColdFusion Cofin
>
> > Larry
> >
> > Why move at all? I mean, the reason you would upgrade is to get
> > features you dont currently have. Saying you will move to another
> > engine which .. err.. last time I looked, didnt have those features,
> > well, go for it!
>
> Here's a possible reason: suppose he needs to deploy on JBoss and JDK 1.6?
> If he's currently running CFMX7, that configuration isn't supported. This
> leaves him two options: BD 7.0 or CF8. If price is important to him and he
> doesn't need the new CF8 features that BD 7.0 doesn't support, then BD 7.0
> is a valid choice.
>
> Or, here's another possibility: what if what he really needs is not just
> Java-to-.NET bridging (as provided in CF8), but full integration with
> ASP.NET such as the ability to do session sharing? In this case,
> BlueDragon.NET 7.0 is the only choice.
>
> There are many "new" features in CF8 that are already supported by BD 7.0
> (or earlier releases). None of these features are in CFMX7, but can be
> found
> in both BD 7.0 and CF8:
>
> - .NET integration
> - image processing (CFIMAGE)
> - query caching with CFQUERYPARAM
> - CFC serialization (J2EE Session scope clustering)
> - duplicate() for CFCs
> - CFC interfaces
> - multi-threaded programming (CFTHREAD)
> - per-application mappings
> - CFZIP/CFZIPPARAM
> - onMissingTemplate event handler for Application.cfc
> - Windows Vista / IIS7 support
> - Mac OS X Intel support
> - JBoss support
> - JDK 1.5 and 1.6 support
>
> Yes, there are features in CF8 that aren't in BD 7.0; there are also
> features in BD 7.0 that aren't in CF8. The relevant questions are: which
> features do you want, and how much do you want to pay?
>
> My point is: it's not at all irrational or unreasonable for ATCC or others
> to choose BD 7.0 over CF8, if BD 7.0 provides a better combination of
> features and price to meet their needs.
>
>
>
>
> 

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Re: Adobe Nails ColdFusion Cofin

2007-08-01 Thread Andrew Scott
I also have to say that Groovy and Grails are awesome as well...

We use both here, and I am impressed.


On 8/2/07, Dinner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On 7/31/07, Sean Corfield wrote:
> 
> > Change the comparison. It should not be about technologies, it should
> > be about solutions.
>
> This, actually, is one of my points- It seems like it's all about the
> tech,
> vs. the solutions.
>
> Solutions-wize, is actually where PHP and the other Open Languages
> are challenging CF.  Because of Open Source, if you ask me, but hey,
> the fact remains, that PHP, etc. "solutions" are getting pretty freaking
> slick.  Easy, good UI design, etc..  Talk about Rapid!  Sheesh!
>
> Just playing with the (free) PHP plug-ins my host offers blew me away.
>
> You could be half-brain dead and whip out a pretty nifty "solution".
> -This is not how it used to be.-
>
> Not to mention, they're not "server/CPU centric" like ColdFusion.
> (Re: the google method, or whatever- farms or flocks, as the case
> may be)
>
> And CF is more a means, vs. a "solution", I reckon.  Depending.
> Since it's all solutions enveloped with/in solutions, or whatever.
>
> **
> I just can't stand this talk of "it's a hard sell to the enterprise cuz
> it's so inexpensive (not cheap, tho ;)" being justification for a price
> hike.  The hard work put in, sure- but the "appearance" argument
> pisses me of a bit.
>
> The idea that money doesn't matter to enterprises, is ludicrous.
> Seems like people think enterprise means unlimited $$?  Or
> that value is assessed using a single vector?  The "Price" of X?!?!
>
> By this argument, no "enterprises" use Linux, Apache, etc.- or some
> strange logic like that.  Does that sound correct?  ROI is easy, right,
> since everyone and their grandma is a millionaire?  Oh, what, you
> mean it's as complicated a topic as you'd like it to be? *sigh* I see.
> **
> Depends on your time frame, I guess.
>
> So... calculating value is really that easy for folks, huh?  Man, I'm a
> freaking mess, I reckon.  I find it sorta hard.  Intangible, even.
> **
> I've never been much of one for licensing, tho.  Support, sure- work,
> fine- but money for having an idea?  Seems like cheating.
>
> I wonder what the world would be like if everything went public domain
> after 7 years or whatever.  ** Ok, enough crazyness.
>
> Peace!
> __
> Sell people (the good way;) (or hardware).
>
> PS says the dude making <$25 an hour
>
> 

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Re: Adobe Nails ColdFusion Cofin

2007-08-01 Thread Sean Corfield
On 8/1/07, Brad Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> There might be more, but the only "throttle" in standard that I know of
> right off is that the cfdocument tag is single-threaded.  Only one can
> execute on the server at a time.

I asked Google for "adobe.com EFR ColdFusion" and found some very
information comments in this thread:

http://www.forta.com/blog/index.cfm/2007/7/30/ColdFusion-8-Is-Here

Jason Delmore, ColdFusion Product Manager, explains (more than once)
what the EFR does. He also points folks to the new Performance Brief
published on the website. And he addresses the number of sites you can
run on Standard (by confirming the "guideline" statement that was
explained elsewhere in this thread).

As I noted (elsewhere in this thread I think?), if each EFR-throttled
request takes less than five seconds (extremely likely!) then you can
serve about 17k such requests per day. If each request takes two
seconds or less, you can serve about 43k such requests per day. That's
in addition to requests for all the non-EFR features in your app.
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RE: Adobe Nails ColdFusion Cofin

2007-08-01 Thread Dale Fraser
Sean

Your facts need review

> Ben did not say that anyone argued for *lower* prices. I expect
several people argued for even higher prices than we got.

I never said he did, I said everyone who might have fought for a lower
price.

> Well, you should have bought maintenance then, shouldn't you? :)

Wrong, CF7 came out more than 2 years ago so everyone who bought a
subscription with CF7 release wasted their money.

> Dude, I've been an enterprise systems architect for decades helping
large corporates with planning and budgets for software and

Yes I've managed multi million dollar projects, but you seem to think you
are the only one to be a real enterprise customer, and you just skipped over
the whole budgeting process that I was talking about.

Regards
Dale Fraser

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-Original Message-
From: Sean Corfield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Wednesday, 1 August 2007 3:31 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: Adobe Nails ColdFusion Cofin

On 7/31/07, Dale Fraser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thanks for your response. I understand that it's not your decision and
that
> there are factors that impact pricing. I also understand that not everyone
> who might have fought for a lower price can always win, it's good that you
> had an opportunity to voice your opinion.

Ben did not say that anyone argued for *lower* prices. I expect
several people argued for even higher prices than we got.

> As I said in the original post CF8 is a great product and I have purchased
> it already. I purchased Standard however when I had budget for Enterprise,
> the 25% increase done at launch gave me no opportunity to budget or plan
for
> this expenditure.

Well, you should have bought maintenance then, shouldn't you? :)

> I mainly get upset due to the fact that CF is always being compared to
free
> products, PHP, .NET & Java and I constantly have to justify the price

Change the comparison. It should not be about technologies, it should
be about solutions.

> I can't imagine they will sell more Enterprise because if it's more
> expensive people will think it's a real Enterprise product. You say I
don't
> understand the enterprise market, well you are wrong

No, I'm right. You are wrong. If you were truly an enterprise customer
- buying enterprise software (as opposed to a customer that happened
to buy Enterprise Edition), you would be only too aware that CF is
extremely cheap and looks out of place on many infrastructure plans.
The higher price will be easier to sell to enterprises. Personally, I
think it's still too cheap. I think $9,995 for 2 CPUs would be a
better price for enterprise infrastructure budgets.

> If you understood enterprise's you would surely know that budgets
> and plans for expenditure need to be submitted at the start of the
financial

Dude, I've been an enterprise systems architect for decades helping
large corporates with planning and budgets for software and
infrastructure. I understand the enterprise market very well. I moved
to America because a company wanted my organization to pick up "small"
contracts... ones that involved less than $1m of licenses for their
software. I think the smallest software project we took on was $375k.
Mostly they were around $750k. At one point we created a *prototype*
for a European company where the budget was 750k GBP. For a
*prototype*! The second phase of the project was a multi-million pound
project (which they took to another company and, after they'd failed -
and cost them millions - they brought the project back to us).

Half a dozen CF Enterprise licenses would have been lost in the line
items in most of those projects.

> PS: Everyone will be very interested now in where they can find clear info
> on how the standard features are throttled ... Does such a document exist?

If you read the product documentation, this is all very clearly explained.
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Re: Adobe Nails ColdFusion Cofin

2007-08-01 Thread Dinner
On 7/31/07, Sean Corfield wrote:

> Change the comparison. It should not be about technologies, it should
> be about solutions.

This, actually, is one of my points- It seems like it's all about the tech,
vs. the solutions.

Solutions-wize, is actually where PHP and the other Open Languages
are challenging CF.  Because of Open Source, if you ask me, but hey,
the fact remains, that PHP, etc. "solutions" are getting pretty freaking
slick.  Easy, good UI design, etc..  Talk about Rapid!  Sheesh!

Just playing with the (free) PHP plug-ins my host offers blew me away.

You could be half-brain dead and whip out a pretty nifty "solution".
-This is not how it used to be.-

Not to mention, they're not "server/CPU centric" like ColdFusion.
(Re: the google method, or whatever- farms or flocks, as the case
may be)

And CF is more a means, vs. a "solution", I reckon.  Depending.
Since it's all solutions enveloped with/in solutions, or whatever.

**
I just can't stand this talk of "it's a hard sell to the enterprise cuz
it's so inexpensive (not cheap, tho ;)" being justification for a price
hike.  The hard work put in, sure- but the "appearance" argument
pisses me of a bit.

The idea that money doesn't matter to enterprises, is ludicrous.
Seems like people think enterprise means unlimited $$?  Or
that value is assessed using a single vector?  The "Price" of X?!?!

By this argument, no "enterprises" use Linux, Apache, etc.- or some
strange logic like that.  Does that sound correct?  ROI is easy, right,
since everyone and their grandma is a millionaire?  Oh, what, you
mean it's as complicated a topic as you'd like it to be? *sigh* I see.
**
Depends on your time frame, I guess.

So... calculating value is really that easy for folks, huh?  Man, I'm a
freaking mess, I reckon.  I find it sorta hard.  Intangible, even.
**
I've never been much of one for licensing, tho.  Support, sure- work,
fine- but money for having an idea?  Seems like cheating.

I wonder what the world would be like if everything went public domain
after 7 years or whatever.  ** Ok, enough crazyness.

Peace!
__
Sell people (the good way;) (or hardware).

PS says the dude making <$25 an hour

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RE: Adobe Nails ColdFusion Cofin

2007-08-01 Thread Brad Wood
Refer to my post late last night.  I outlined exactly what features are
throttled in standard in the " Server Monitoring in Standard" thread.
It's all available here:

http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/pdfs/cf8_featurecomp.pdf

~Brad

===

PS: Everyone will be very interested now in where they can find clear
info
on how the standard features are throttled, I for one don't want to
start
debugging code when things go slow to find that the server is doing
this. I
want to know in advance of what every limit is. Does such a document
exist?

Regards
Dale Fraser
*
I would agree..that would be useful info...Oh Adobe

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RE: Adobe Nails ColdFusion Cofin

2007-08-01 Thread Eric Roberts
ROFL

-Original Message-
From: Tom Chiverton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2007 7:34 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: Adobe Nails ColdFusion Cofin

On Wednesday 01 Aug 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> If this thread goes on any longer I am going to double the price of
> CFEclipse so it fits into the Enterprise Market.

So we can advertise CFEclipse as 'twice as free' now, right ?

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RE: Adobe Nails ColdFusion Cofin

2007-08-01 Thread Eric Roberts
I will keep that in mind...I just know that was the solution for 6 and 7.  I
would assume they would be releasing something that is compatable with 1.6
in the near future.  Mark this down as one of the many reasons why I dislike
Oracle *grin*.

Eric

-Original Message-
From: James Holmes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2007 11:17 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: Adobe Nails ColdFusion Cofin

A quick check of the latest Oracle thin client download page shows
that Java up to 1.5 is supported. Since CF8 ships with Java 6, there
may be a further issue.

On 8/1/07, Eric Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> You have to use the Thin client and then it works fine.
>
> Eric
>
> -Original Message-
> From: James Holmes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2007 2:38 AM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: Re: Adobe Nails ColdFusion Cofin
>
> Unless the Oracle supplied driver has changed recently, some things
> don't work the same as the DataDirect CF Oracle driver, like stored
> procs returning results from ref cursors and BLOBS. If it has changed,
> great.

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RE: Adobe Nails ColdFusion Cofin

2007-08-01 Thread Eric Roberts
Nope...just good competition that will just improve CF in the long run.

Eric

-Original Message-
From: Vince Bonfanti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2007 8:17 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: Adobe Nails ColdFusion Cofin

> Larry
> 
> Why move at all? I mean, the reason you would upgrade is to get
> features you dont currently have. Saying you will move to another
> engine which .. err.. last time I looked, didnt have those features,
> well, go for it!

Here's a possible reason: suppose he needs to deploy on JBoss and JDK 1.6?
If he's currently running CFMX7, that configuration isn't supported. This
leaves him two options: BD 7.0 or CF8. If price is important to him and he
doesn't need the new CF8 features that BD 7.0 doesn't support, then BD 7.0
is a valid choice.

Or, here's another possibility: what if what he really needs is not just
Java-to-.NET bridging (as provided in CF8), but full integration with
ASP.NET such as the ability to do session sharing? In this case,
BlueDragon.NET 7.0 is the only choice.

There are many "new" features in CF8 that are already supported by BD 7.0
(or earlier releases). None of these features are in CFMX7, but can be found
in both BD 7.0 and CF8:

- .NET integration
- image processing (CFIMAGE)
- query caching with CFQUERYPARAM
- CFC serialization (J2EE Session scope clustering)
- duplicate() for CFCs
- CFC interfaces
- multi-threaded programming (CFTHREAD)
- per-application mappings
- CFZIP/CFZIPPARAM
- onMissingTemplate event handler for Application.cfc
- Windows Vista / IIS7 support
- Mac OS X Intel support
- JBoss support
- JDK 1.5 and 1.6 support

Yes, there are features in CF8 that aren't in BD 7.0; there are also
features in BD 7.0 that aren't in CF8. The relevant questions are: which
features do you want, and how much do you want to pay?

My point is: it's not at all irrational or unreasonable for ATCC or others
to choose BD 7.0 over CF8, if BD 7.0 provides a better combination of
features and price to meet their needs.




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RE: Adobe Nails ColdFusion Cofin

2007-08-01 Thread John Mason
One of the points here was that other software has more of a "price spread"
than Adobe CF currently. Don't get too focused in on the numbers. The other
point was that enterprise level software is expensive. Surprise! Sure
there's J2EE stuff that as expensive if not more, I stand corrected there.
But Microsoft, Oracle (to some point) and others have layers of product
versions to cover the purchasing power our their customers. 

To use a car analogy. Not everyone can afford an Aston-Martin DB5 but they
don't want a used 70's VW bug either. There's a range that all the car
companies cover with slightly different lines. The same is true for
software. It's actually good, it means there's a big enough market for CF to
have a real price spread of more than 2 versions. If Adobe ran a simple
pricing analysis, I bet with a new 'business version' they would end up
making more money than having just Standard/Enterprise versions.


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-Original Message-
From: Andy Matthews [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2007 11:03 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: Adobe Nails ColdFusion Cofin

We just purchased SQL Server licenses and it's only the actual processor
that counts.  You could have a quad core and it would only be one license.

-Original Message-
From: Russ [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2007 9:51 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: Adobe Nails ColdFusion Cofin

> 
> Dale, I did a quick search for software pricing to put the CF8 pricing 
> in some perspective..
> 
> Windows 2003 Enterprise   3,443
> Windows 2003 Standard 958
> 
> Oracle 10g Enterprise 40,000
> Oracle 10g Standard   4,995
> 
> Sql Server Enterprise 13,699
> Sql Server Standard   1,754
> 
> JBoss Enterprise  4,500
> 

I'm not sure if this pricing is an accurate representation.  Sure SQL server
standard is around $1800 with 5 CALs, but if you want to use it for a web
app, you will need a per processor license.  Let's say you have a standard
dual core 2 duo box.  That's 4 virtual processors.  If I'm reading the
licensing terms correctly, you would need 4 processor licenses (assuming you
want to utilize all 4 processors).  

This comes out to $5999 per processor x 4 processors, $23996 for the
standard version, $24,999 per processor x 4 processors, $95984 for the
enterprise version.  Of course if you're buying the enterprise version,
you're probably doing it for failover or some sort of clustering, in which
case you will likely have 2 servers, so it will be close to $200k for the
enterprise version.  

Of course there's the express version, which does most of what you would
need as long as you don't need more then 1 cpu, 1GB of ram and 4GB of db
size.  

I think MS did a good move by releasing the express version.  This might
hurt sales, as a lot of people would be happy with just the express version,
but once people start outgrowing it, they will have no choice but to plunk
down $6k per CPU for the standard edition.  

Mind you that CF only charges per physical processor and the enterprise
license covers 2 physical CPUs (last time I checked).  This means you can
have 2 quad-core or higher CPUs and you're good as far as CF is concenrned.
You can also have unlimited virtual machines on the 2 physical CPUs, and run
a copy of standard edition in each of them, and you're still good as far as
licensing is concerned.  

Russ








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RE: Adobe Nails ColdFusion Cofin

2007-08-01 Thread Eric Roberts
See below

-Original Message-
From: Dale Fraser [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2007 5:57 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: Adobe Nails ColdFusion Cofin

Ben,



I mainly get upset due to the fact that CF is always being compared to free
products, PHP, .NET & Java and I constantly have to justify the price, to me
and a lot of others this price increase was just unexpected. I really wonder
how many people who were going to purchase Enterprise purchased Standard
instead, either due to the price or the fact that standard has more
features.

It gets compared because the talking heads are deceptive when they say that
they are free, when in reality they are not.  Allaire/Macromedia/Adobe also
have some guilt in this in that none of them ever countered this.  As I said
in a previous posting, Ben wrote an article about this for CFDJ, but that
was the only mention of this disparity in the truth.
Allaire/Macromedia/Adobe should be using this information to contradict this
misinformation campaign and they have all failed miserably in this and other
marketing aspects.  Maybe a good suggestion for the adobe folks would be to
put up a product comparison page that shows the approximate costs (both
development and purchase) costs to get the other languages up to par with CF
out of the box.  Someone needs to give the Adobe marketing team a good swift
kick in the behind and get them on the ball.
**

Sean,

I can't imagine they will sell more Enterprise because if it's more
expensive people will think it's a real Enterprise product. You say I don't
understand the enterprise market, well you are wrong, I am one of these
customers. If you understood enterprise's you would surely know that budgets
and plans for expenditure need to be submitted at the start of the financial
year. I am now one less enterprise customer, but I guess they can afford to
lose 25% of the enterprise customers and still break even.
***
You would be surprised on just how stupid executives can be in big
companies.  I have heard this more than I care to remember.  It does sound
really asinine, because, well...it is very asinine, but that is how they
think.  They are used to enterprise level products that cost in the 10's and
100's of thousands of dollars (I remember doing some research on this an
there was a java based product (this was about 10 years ago) that cost
100k...so I am not exaggerating.  Look at Oracle web services...that costs
over 10k and all that offers is a Java development platform that works with
the database.) This is kind of a self-image issue as well.  If they paid
this much and can justify what they paid for these other products, how can
CF be a worthy product if it is so cheap compared to these other products?
If there is a product that is a qualified and useful enterprise level web
development solution that is that cheap, then they were pretty stupid to
spend 10's and 100's of thousands of dollars on the other stuff.  

Most also have discretionary spending allowed for in the budget or are
allowed some leeway for instances like that.  I am sure that if you went to
your bosses and say, hey they increased the price by 750(?) a CPU...we need
x amount of dollars added to our budget to cover this unexpected
increase...I am sure they would ok it.  All the in you had was that there
probably wouldn't be an increase, so you could not have guessed that there
would be.  Unless you work for a really small company (and I mean really
small...and if it is...then as several had stated before...you probably
don't need enterprise anyway), if your company is that inflexible that they
cannot absorb a couple of thousand dollars in this, then they might just
have grater issues that should concern you more.  
***



PS: Everyone will be very interested now in where they can find clear info
on how the standard features are throttled, I for one don't want to start
debugging code when things go slow to find that the server is doing this. I
want to know in advance of what every limit is. Does such a document exist?

Regards
Dale Fraser
*
I would agree..that would be useful info...Oh Adobe

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Re: Adobe Nails ColdFusion Cofin

2007-08-01 Thread Arthur.Frey
I really this this horse is dead, and has been dead for a while.  The 
truth is that if you go to a Cadillac dealer with $15,000 they tell me 
to go to another dealership.

Billy Cox wrote:
> Why could you not provide the license free or at reduced price and pad the
> cost into other invoice items? When I buy stuff on the web, I am a sucker
> for free shipping - knowing that it's not really free. 
>
> If a client balks at buying a server license, why not sell them a dedicated
> hosting plan with CF support so that the cost is spread out over months? You
> have to take advantage of the fact that most people can't do basic math.
>
> When I visit a car dealership, the salesman might *like* to sell me a Shelby
> Mustang, but if I only have $15,000 to spend he will not let me leave the
> car lot without trying to sell me a used Ford Focus.
>
> The point I'm getting to is that this has nothing to do with Adobe's
> pricing, and it has everything to do with salesmanship.
>
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Robert Harrison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2007 2:44 PM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: RE: Adobe Nails ColdFusion Cofin
>
>
> I just want to get Adobe to drop the price. It's a hard sell to some clients
> and we've lost some opportunities because of it. I'll always continue to use
> CF as my mainstay, but also learning .net is not a bad thing... And whenever
> we have lost a site it's always been to .net technology.
>
> For what it's worth I've always been, and still am a CF advocate. But the
> reality is it's a business market and it's doesn't hurt to have alternative
> options to give your clients.
>
>
>
>
> 

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RE: Adobe Nails ColdFusion Cofin

2007-08-01 Thread Eric Roberts
We can also hearken back to the old article Ben Forta wrote in regards to
ASP being free (this can relate to .NET and PHP).  Keep in mind, this
article is several years old (I believe he wrote it when CF5 was the current
version).  Ben estimated, that through either cost of development time or
cost of purchasing modules to "upgrade" ASP's functionality, to get ASP up
to the same functional level as CF is right out of the box, it would cost
over $36,000.  I wonder what that cost breakdown would be today between CF8
features and J2EE servers without CF, .NET, and PHP?  While the initial cost
may be cheaper or free, the actual cost is more than likely going to be a
lot greater (I would include the cost of training as well and the time costs
required for gaining proficiency in the respective languages).  I bet the
results would show that .Net and PHP are not so cost effective.

Eric

-Original Message-
From: Dinner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2007 5:43 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: Adobe Nails ColdFusion Cofin

On 7/31/07, John Mason wrote:
.
> JBoss Enterprise4,500

Hey, here's an apple!

> Another point for the Adobe people, I remember when the
standard/enterprise
> started and there was a lot complaining back then. With the price gap
> getting wider, maybe it's time for a third version, let's call it a
> "Business" version. That provides some of the least costly new features
and
> provides a bridge (or stepping stone) from standard to enterprise. I think
> that would solve a lot of issues with this and take almost nothing for
Adobe
> to do.

Excellent post, and idea!  I love the places that are like, "well, what do
you do? How much money do you make? Etc., etc." and then have the
price-swaying power to work with you.  Compromise, in some cases,
and just plain "helping a brother out", in others.

Probably hell on the accountants, and whatnot, and you got X complaining
that Y got Z for AA, or whatever.  Still, I've seen it work (and IIRC, with
CF,
back in the day).  Eh.

Great post tho, thanks.



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RE: Adobe Nails ColdFusion Cofin

2007-08-01 Thread Andy Matthews
We just purchased SQL Server licenses and it's only the actual processor
that counts.  You could have a quad core and it would only be one license.

-Original Message-
From: Russ [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2007 9:51 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: Adobe Nails ColdFusion Cofin

> 
> Dale, I did a quick search for software pricing to put the CF8 pricing 
> in some perspective..
> 
> Windows 2003 Enterprise   3,443
> Windows 2003 Standard 958
> 
> Oracle 10g Enterprise 40,000
> Oracle 10g Standard   4,995
> 
> Sql Server Enterprise 13,699
> Sql Server Standard   1,754
> 
> JBoss Enterprise  4,500
> 

I'm not sure if this pricing is an accurate representation.  Sure SQL server
standard is around $1800 with 5 CALs, but if you want to use it for a web
app, you will need a per processor license.  Let's say you have a standard
dual core 2 duo box.  That's 4 virtual processors.  If I'm reading the
licensing terms correctly, you would need 4 processor licenses (assuming you
want to utilize all 4 processors).  

This comes out to $5999 per processor x 4 processors, $23996 for the
standard version, $24,999 per processor x 4 processors, $95984 for the
enterprise version.  Of course if you're buying the enterprise version,
you're probably doing it for failover or some sort of clustering, in which
case you will likely have 2 servers, so it will be close to $200k for the
enterprise version.  

Of course there's the express version, which does most of what you would
need as long as you don't need more then 1 cpu, 1GB of ram and 4GB of db
size.  

I think MS did a good move by releasing the express version.  This might
hurt sales, as a lot of people would be happy with just the express version,
but once people start outgrowing it, they will have no choice but to plunk
down $6k per CPU for the standard edition.  

Mind you that CF only charges per physical processor and the enterprise
license covers 2 physical CPUs (last time I checked).  This means you can
have 2 quad-core or higher CPUs and you're good as far as CF is concenrned.
You can also have unlimited virtual machines on the 2 physical CPUs, and run
a copy of standard edition in each of them, and you're still good as far as
licensing is concerned.  

Russ






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RE: Adobe Nails ColdFusion Cofin

2007-08-01 Thread Eric Roberts
*handing Brad a sense of humor*...it was a joke.  Relax...  I think
Google is an unofficial part of the community.It's probably one of the
more valuable resources for CF besides CFWACK and this list...

Eric

-Original Message-
From: Brad Wood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2007 10:14 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: Adobe Nails ColdFusion Cofin

Lol.  Thanks's for the insult. 

I purposely asked on the list because:
1) It was a thread that actually technical for once
2) I figured other people could benefit from the answer
3) I wanted to know how Brian was using it in the context of CF, which
Google probably won't tell me.

Kind of like when you ask a question in the class for the benefit of
everyone else as much as yourself.  Heck, we could just shut this list
down, and forward all houseoffusion traffic to
www.justfriggingoogleit.com but that would sort of defeat the community,
wouldn't it?

~Brad

-Original Message-
From: Rick Root [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Monday, July 30, 2007 2:33 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: Adobe Nails ColdFusion Cofin

On 7/30/07, Brad Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> That sure sounds cool.
> What is it?

www.justfuckinggoogleit.com

http://www.google.com/search?q=fips+140



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RE: Adobe Nails ColdFusion Cofin

2007-08-01 Thread Billy Cox
Why could you not provide the license free or at reduced price and pad the
cost into other invoice items? When I buy stuff on the web, I am a sucker
for free shipping - knowing that it's not really free. 

If a client balks at buying a server license, why not sell them a dedicated
hosting plan with CF support so that the cost is spread out over months? You
have to take advantage of the fact that most people can't do basic math.

When I visit a car dealership, the salesman might *like* to sell me a Shelby
Mustang, but if I only have $15,000 to spend he will not let me leave the
car lot without trying to sell me a used Ford Focus.

The point I'm getting to is that this has nothing to do with Adobe's
pricing, and it has everything to do with salesmanship.



-Original Message-
From: Robert Harrison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2007 2:44 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: Adobe Nails ColdFusion Cofin


I just want to get Adobe to drop the price. It's a hard sell to some clients
and we've lost some opportunities because of it. I'll always continue to use
CF as my mainstay, but also learning .net is not a bad thing... And whenever
we have lost a site it's always been to .net technology.

For what it's worth I've always been, and still am a CF advocate. But the
reality is it's a business market and it's doesn't hurt to have alternative
options to give your clients.




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RE: Adobe Nails ColdFusion Cofin

2007-08-01 Thread Russ
> 
> Dale, I did a quick search for software pricing to put the CF8 pricing in
> some perspective..
> 
> Windows 2003 Enterprise   3,443
> Windows 2003 Standard 958
> 
> Oracle 10g Enterprise 40,000
> Oracle 10g Standard   4,995
> 
> Sql Server Enterprise 13,699
> Sql Server Standard   1,754
> 
> JBoss Enterprise  4,500
> 

I'm not sure if this pricing is an accurate representation.  Sure SQL server
standard is around $1800 with 5 CALs, but if you want to use it for a web
app, you will need a per processor license.  Let's say you have a standard
dual core 2 duo box.  That's 4 virtual processors.  If I'm reading the
licensing terms correctly, you would need 4 processor licenses (assuming you
want to utilize all 4 processors).  

This comes out to $5999 per processor x 4 processors, $23996 for the
standard version, $24,999 per processor x 4 processors, $95984 for the
enterprise version.  Of course if you're buying the enterprise version,
you're probably doing it for failover or some sort of clustering, in which
case you will likely have 2 servers, so it will be close to $200k for the
enterprise version.  

Of course there's the express version, which does most of what you would
need as long as you don't need more then 1 cpu, 1GB of ram and 4GB of db
size.  

I think MS did a good move by releasing the express version.  This might
hurt sales, as a lot of people would be happy with just the express version,
but once people start outgrowing it, they will have no choice but to plunk
down $6k per CPU for the standard edition.  

Mind you that CF only charges per physical processor and the enterprise
license covers 2 physical CPUs (last time I checked).  This means you can
have 2 quad-core or higher CPUs and you're good as far as CF is concenrned.
You can also have unlimited virtual machines on the 2 physical CPUs, and run
a copy of standard edition in each of them, and you're still good as far as
licensing is concerned.  

Russ




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Re: Adobe Nails ColdFusion Cofin

2007-08-01 Thread Tom Chiverton
On Wednesday 01 Aug 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> If this thread goes on any longer I am going to double the price of
> CFEclipse so it fits into the Enterprise Market.

So we can advertise CFEclipse as 'twice as free' now, right ?

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Re: Adobe Nails ColdFusion Cofin

2007-08-01 Thread Vince Bonfanti
> Larry
> 
> Why move at all? I mean, the reason you would upgrade is to get
> features you dont currently have. Saying you will move to another
> engine which .. err.. last time I looked, didnt have those features,
> well, go for it!

Here's a possible reason: suppose he needs to deploy on JBoss and JDK 1.6? If 
he's currently running CFMX7, that configuration isn't supported. This leaves 
him two options: BD 7.0 or CF8. If price is important to him and he doesn't 
need the new CF8 features that BD 7.0 doesn't support, then BD 7.0 is a valid 
choice.

Or, here's another possibility: what if what he really needs is not just 
Java-to-.NET bridging (as provided in CF8), but full integration with ASP.NET 
such as the ability to do session sharing? In this case, BlueDragon.NET 7.0 is 
the only choice.

There are many "new" features in CF8 that are already supported by BD 7.0 (or 
earlier releases). None of these features are in CFMX7, but can be found in 
both BD 7.0 and CF8:

- .NET integration
- image processing (CFIMAGE)
- query caching with CFQUERYPARAM
- CFC serialization (J2EE Session scope clustering)
- duplicate() for CFCs
- CFC interfaces
- multi-threaded programming (CFTHREAD)
- per-application mappings
- CFZIP/CFZIPPARAM
- onMissingTemplate event handler for Application.cfc
- Windows Vista / IIS7 support
- Mac OS X Intel support
- JBoss support
- JDK 1.5 and 1.6 support

Yes, there are features in CF8 that aren't in BD 7.0; there are also features 
in BD 7.0 that aren't in CF8. The relevant questions are: which features do you 
want, and how much do you want to pay?

My point is: it's not at all irrational or unreasonable for ATCC or others to 
choose BD 7.0 over CF8, if BD 7.0 provides a better combination of features and 
price to meet their needs.


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Re: Adobe Nails ColdFusion Cofin

2007-08-01 Thread Mark Drew
If this thread goes on any longer I am going to double the price of
CFEclipse so it fits into the Enterprise Market.

We are in no way an "enterprise" company, but the price increase is
basically 2 days of a developer. With the Ajax features, we have
already made that money back.

MD

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RE: Adobe Nails ColdFusion Cofin

2007-08-01 Thread Peterson, Chris
I personally would love to see a 'Coldfusion Express' edition come out
again, like back in the Allaire days. Access to CFQuery, output, loops,
 Another point for the Adobe people, I remember when the 
> standard/enterprise started and there was a lot complaining back then.

> With the price gap getting wider, maybe it's time for a third version,

> let's call it a "Business" version. That provides some of the least 
> costly new features and provides a bridge (or stepping stone) from 
> standard to enterprise. I think that would solve a lot of issues with 
> this and take almost nothing for Adobe to do.

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Re: Adobe Nails ColdFusion Cofin

2007-08-01 Thread mac jordan
On 8/1/07, Brad Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> PS: Everyone will be very interested now in where they can find clear
> info
> on how the standard features are throttled, I for one don't want to
> start
> debugging code when things go slow to find that the server is doing
> this. I
> want to know in advance of what every limit is. Does such a document
> exist?
>


I want to know this too.

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RE: Adobe Nails ColdFusion Cofin

2007-08-01 Thread Brad Wood
We have a subscription.  We called Adobe today and apparently we are
waiting for a coupon code to arrive in our E-mail.  This might take up
to two weeks they said.
I sure am glad we got the subscription, but 2 weeks feels like forever
right now. :)

~Brad

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any idea when those of us with the upgrade subscription thingie
can expect our copies to show up?

thanks
tony :)

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RE: Adobe Nails ColdFusion Cofin

2007-08-01 Thread Brad Wood
There might be more, but the only "throttle" in standard that I know of
right off is that the cfdocument tag is single-threaded.  Only one can
execute on the server at a time.

~Brad


PS: Everyone will be very interested now in where they can find clear
info
on how the standard features are throttled, I for one don't want to
start
debugging code when things go slow to find that the server is doing
this. I
want to know in advance of what every limit is. Does such a document
exist?


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Re: Adobe Nails ColdFusion Cofin

2007-08-01 Thread Larry Lyons
>>> We use it at here at ATCC. But given this price increase we'll
>probably be moving over to Blue Dragon.
>
>>These discussions simply remind me of the "user blackmail" that we get
>with CFEclipse: "If you dont add this feature, we are moving to
>homesite!"
>
>I like it when irrational people move away from CF.  It makes the rest
>of us more-valuable.
>
>M!ke

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Re: Adobe Nails ColdFusion Cofin

2007-08-01 Thread Andrew Scott
Agreed...

And from that I will add that I am about to release in the next few weeks a
CFReport clone, based of a java open source project the technology I chose
actually rocks, and compared to Crystal Reports it rocks and the designer is
by far the best I have seen even better than JasperReports and that is
saying something.

I not only wrote this in JSTL, and as a servlet, but it took me very little
time that we are going to use across all our projects plus more.

As far as PDF, and flex goes there are plenty of open source alternatives
that are going to kill Coldfusion.

Adobe needs to do something and do it fast, otherwise there will be very
little usage as far as Coldfusion goes in the market place.



On 8/1/07, Dinner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Another thing to keep in mind, is, Open Source.
>
> It's starting to Crush, you know?  Still hasn't flipped the
> script, but we're getting close.  Seriously close.
>
> Guess it's sorta like the tulip thing, or whatever-  The
> stock market, etc.- You ride as long as you can, and
> hope you don't stay too long (wipeout).
>
> I don't mind if Adobe wants to ride the wave for a bit
> more- heck, seems logical- but mark my words, it
> will be a different "model" in not-too-long.
>
> Sorta.  The more things change...
>
> Ha! Mark my words... I love that.  Mark 'em! =P
>
> PS just delete this if it's too off topic :)
>
> 

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RE: Adobe Nails ColdFusion Cofin

2007-07-31 Thread Dave Watts
> Dale, I did a quick search for software pricing to put the 
> CF8 pricing in some perspective..
> 
> Windows 2003 Enterprise   3,443
> Windows 2003 Standard 958
> 
> Oracle 10g Enterprise 40,000
> Oracle 10g Standard   4,995
> 
> Sql Server Enterprise 13,699
> Sql Server Standard   1,754
> 
> JBoss Enterprise  4,500
> 
> Now as far as software goes, CF8 is reasonably priced. If you 
> look at just J2ee servers or Web app servers, yea CF8 Ent is 
> very high.

You might want to look at some other J2EE app servers, if you thing CF 8 is
priced comparatively high. WebSphere, WebLogic, Oracle AS ...

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RE: Adobe Nails ColdFusion Cofin

2007-07-31 Thread Eric Roberts
You have to use the Thin client and then it works fine.

Eric

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Unless the Oracle supplied driver has changed recently, some things
don't work the same as the DataDirect CF Oracle driver, like stored
procs returning results from ref cursors and BLOBS. If it has changed,
great.

On 7/31/07, Mark Mandel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Charles,
>
> Why not just use Standard, and use the free JDBC drivers you can
> download from Oracle themselves, and just make an 'other' connection?
>
> What's the problem with that?
>
> I hate to say this, I have to wonder - if your business is complaining
> about paying ~10K for their server software, (or less), then you
> probably struggle to qualify for the 'enterprise' target that
> ColdFusion really is targeted for. (and most of us aren't, we're just
> paying for upgrades).
>
> Maybe I'm too far removed from the bean counters (and that is quite
> possible), but I actually am quite confused by all of this noise.
>
> I'm actually sitting back and looking at all the new features that
> were put in Standard, which is meant for people who aren't enterprise,
> and going 'cool! loads of new stuff, without a price hike... nice work
> for targeting those that aren't enterprise, and essentially giving
> them more for less cost in a product'.
>
> Mark
>
> On 7/31/07, Charles E. Heizer1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > So, I have to agree with Dale... Adobe has put a bullet in CF. For
example, Standard Edition would be fine for me but I need Oracle access and
now I need to pay twice that just to do supported Oracle connectivity.  We
are an enterprise and when I discussed this with management they came back
and said we should just invest our time in ASP.NET. We can retrain our
developers, and not worry about buying upgrades and we'll get new features
as they come out. You know, I don't disagree with them. I just recently
started playing with Visual Studio .Net, and it's far easier to write web
services and create great web content.
> >
> > Adobe thanks for the memories, a user/developer since version 4.5.
> >
> > - Charles
> >
> >
> > On 7/30/07 5:27 AM, "Adam Haskell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > I want to echo what Sean said...I looked at CF8 and thought, "wow
finally a
> > product that I would really label Enterprise." Not to say CF7 wasn't
> > Enterprise, it had some great features and was a great release, but I
think
> > the monitoring and some of the Administration changes helped make it
really
> > enterprise friendly. Thats not mentioning the performance enhancements,
> > exchange integration (which currently means nothing to Lotus Shops
bleh),
> > and whole suite of ajax tools that really make CF shine as a UI web
layer
> > for large Java apps.
> >
> > You have to look at this product and realize enterprise is worthless to
you
> > unless you really need super scalability. Standard has it all, albeit
> > limited/throttled. Sure cfthread and exchange integration and PDF (?)
are
> > throttled but they are available and until you have 100+ (dare I say
> > probably more) concurrent users using the exact same functionality
> > Enterprise means very little. Its like a computer, my Mom doesn't need a
> > dual core 64bit AMD with 2gig of ram and 256mb dedicate graphics card
> > running iSCSI to send me pictures and read email (unless she is running
> > Vista then she might ;) ). Gone are the days where you have to have
> > enterprise to play with those nifty event gateways. If enterprise looks
to
> > expensive to you then you probably don't need it, or you need to look at
> > some other Enterprise software costs and revisit in 15 minutes. Hell I
say
> > that single move by Adobe to offer a more complete Standard Edition will
> > open more doors for ColdFusion than any single feature. I say Bravo!
> >
> > Adam Haskell
> >
> > On 7/30/07, Sean Corfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > > On 7/29/07, Michael Dinowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > As for your post on CF 8 being a dead product because of the price
> > > > increase, note that the increase if for Enterprise. How many people
> > > > here (other than me) actually use or need enterprise.
> > >
> > > Me!
> > >
> > > To be honest, the difference between $3,000/CPU and $3,750/CPU is
> > > pretty negligible in an enterprise worl

RE: Adobe Nails ColdFusion Cofin

2007-07-31 Thread Eric Roberts
Yeah...isn't MS discontinuing support for VB?

Eric

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I would love to see the ROI calculation on this decision:

x amount for classes
x amount for time to attend the classes (as an aside, learn C# instead of
vb.net... you will thank me later)
x time to actually get proficient at .NET
x copies of Visual Studio
x time to convert existing CF code

Seems you could buy a lot of copies of CF Enterprise with that.

Now, I'm pretty pragmatic about language selection - CF is not the only, or
always the best, choice, but this type of knee-jerk reaction to a minor
price hike strikes me as a more than a bit over the top.

On 7/31/07, Robert Harrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> > What's the deal with people who think that you should be happy to pay
> > more because there are new features.
>
> All I can say is, Thanks Adobe. I just got my company to pay for a series
> of
> clases for .net and vb.net.
>
> Worked out OK for me. Don't know if it will work out for Adobe when we
> start
> dumping CF.
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Re: Adobe Nails ColdFusion Cofin

2007-07-31 Thread Sean Corfield
On 7/31/07, Dale Fraser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thanks for your response. I understand that it's not your decision and that
> there are factors that impact pricing. I also understand that not everyone
> who might have fought for a lower price can always win, it's good that you
> had an opportunity to voice your opinion.

Ben did not say that anyone argued for *lower* prices. I expect
several people argued for even higher prices than we got.

> As I said in the original post CF8 is a great product and I have purchased
> it already. I purchased Standard however when I had budget for Enterprise,
> the 25% increase done at launch gave me no opportunity to budget or plan for
> this expenditure.

Well, you should have bought maintenance then, shouldn't you? :)

> I mainly get upset due to the fact that CF is always being compared to free
> products, PHP, .NET & Java and I constantly have to justify the price

Change the comparison. It should not be about technologies, it should
be about solutions.

> I can't imagine they will sell more Enterprise because if it's more
> expensive people will think it's a real Enterprise product. You say I don't
> understand the enterprise market, well you are wrong

No, I'm right. You are wrong. If you were truly an enterprise customer
- buying enterprise software (as opposed to a customer that happened
to buy Enterprise Edition), you would be only too aware that CF is
extremely cheap and looks out of place on many infrastructure plans.
The higher price will be easier to sell to enterprises. Personally, I
think it's still too cheap. I think $9,995 for 2 CPUs would be a
better price for enterprise infrastructure budgets.

> If you understood enterprise's you would surely know that budgets
> and plans for expenditure need to be submitted at the start of the financial

Dude, I've been an enterprise systems architect for decades helping
large corporates with planning and budgets for software and
infrastructure. I understand the enterprise market very well. I moved
to America because a company wanted my organization to pick up "small"
contracts... ones that involved less than $1m of licenses for their
software. I think the smallest software project we took on was $375k.
Mostly they were around $750k. At one point we created a *prototype*
for a European company where the budget was 750k GBP. For a
*prototype*! The second phase of the project was a multi-million pound
project (which they took to another company and, after they'd failed -
and cost them millions - they brought the project back to us).

Half a dozen CF Enterprise licenses would have been lost in the line
items in most of those projects.

> PS: Everyone will be very interested now in where they can find clear info
> on how the standard features are throttled ... Does such a document exist?

If you read the product documentation, this is all very clearly explained.
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RE: Adobe Nails ColdFusion Cofin

2007-07-31 Thread Dave Watts
> The .Net development not only creates the web service but it 
> also creates WSDL and a Test page to test the web service.

CF creates WSDL in the same manner. No test page, though.

> I've also found the web service code generated by CF does not 
> include the proper header info, which has caused some application 
> developers a headache consuming some of the web services.

And what "proper header info" is that exactly?

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RE: Adobe Nails ColdFusion Cofin

2007-07-31 Thread Andrew Scott
Which is why we are a java shop now, enterprise applications are cheaper
overall to integrate into open source solutions, and then when you have a
$7.5k license to an application you are developing and use only about 2% of
the features to distribute your application costs more with Coldfusion 8.

But, on the other side of the coin as Java developers we have a better way
of dealing with this problem. Since moving to Java a few months ago I have
emulated enough of Coldfusion into JSTL to do what we need, the time
invested is minimal when you think about the overall use that these JSTL's
are going to beneficial to us.

And we can now turn a $2k investment in time, into about $100 per
application we sell. This is why the price of Coldfusion in an Enterprise
environment will never be taken seriously by the people who make the
decisions.

And what would have been a better move, in my opinion is to open source the
engine and modulate those that need to retain IP or licensing costs, Adobe
would have found that with this sort of business approach Adobe would
actually make more money with Coldfusion than they do now as well as
capturing more market share in the enterprise market.

And you wonder why so many enterprise developers look towards open source
software, and support these business models more than ever.

The overall concept of one application that does everything is very
appealing, however the cost is not so appealing.



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Rick...

You make compelling arguments. But IMO, if you have to explain the ROI to
someone, then you've already lost the battle. There might be a few people
that would be convinced by your (compelling) arguments. But most people are
going to see that price tag and not even BOTHER reading the rest of the
stuff about it.

They'll simply think "CF is too much for my budget" and go install PHP or
something.


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Re: Adobe Nails ColdFusion Cofin

2007-07-31 Thread James Holmes
A quick check of the latest Oracle thin client download page shows
that Java up to 1.5 is supported. Since CF8 ships with Java 6, there
may be a further issue.

On 8/1/07, Eric Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> You have to use the Thin client and then it works fine.
>
> Eric
>
> -Original Message-
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> Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2007 2:38 AM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: Re: Adobe Nails ColdFusion Cofin
>
> Unless the Oracle supplied driver has changed recently, some things
> don't work the same as the DataDirect CF Oracle driver, like stored
> procs returning results from ref cursors and BLOBS. If it has changed,
> great.

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Re: Adobe Nails ColdFusion Cofin

2007-07-31 Thread Rey Bango
Casey,

To further back your case, anyone that is sitting here thinking that 
they *have* to buy CF for their development is incorrect. You can 
download a copy right now and use the developer edition for free. So 
along with your great statement about having clients pay for their 
hosting, there's no reason why anyone should not be able to effectively 
use CF for their development.

For those that need good, inexpensive ColdFusion 8 hosting, 
HostMySite.com has started offering it at $21.95/month:

http://hostmysite.com/hosting/builder/

Rey...

Casey Dougall wrote:
> On 7/30/07, Neil Middleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> Small point to bear in mind here, which always pops into my head when I hear
> this argument.
> 
> Let's say I am on $50/hr like you say, therefore for myself to pay for CF8
> Ent, I'm looking at working at least 150 hours before it's paid for.  OK, I
> may be 10% more productive than PHP, but if I were using CF then I would
> only save 208 hours per year over PHP (150 are spent paying for the license
> as well).
> 
> So, at the end of my year, I'm 58 profit hours up. i.e $2900. If I had more
> than one server (say one dev, one test), I'd be out of pocket to the tune of
> $4600. It's not such a massive amount after all.
> 
> ~~~
> 
> Neil
> 
> You think about this all wrong, you should be charging your clients for
> hosting, then it's not out of pocket at all. you might take a slight larger
> hit for upgrading but in the end your clients flip the bill for hosting
> their websites with you. You would never need to work a minute to make up
> for the price of coldfusion.
> 
> Casey
> 
> 
> 

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RE: Adobe Nails ColdFusion Cofin

2007-07-31 Thread John Mason
From: Charles E. Heizer1 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
>Trust me, I really don't want to jump ship but when people keep whispering
PHP/ASP etc. to management, and the product cost is, well free. It makes it
a really hard sell. We have also had,in the past a really hard time finding
good quality CF   developers.
--

Others have mention this already but PHP and ASP are only free if you don't
value your time and you prefer to write larger amounts of code. Granted,
it's hard to sale this to management sometimes with the prices printed right
there, but you could do a simple code off. Do a set of code in ASP, PHP and
ColdFusion that simply calls a datasource and outputs the data. This is a
very basic operation that we all do and it doesn't take much to appreciate
the simplicity of CF in this example. Now magnify that difference over
weeks, months or years. The time alone you're saving should easy balance out
the price.

Now finding experienced CF developers, yes, the field is tight. Here in
Atlanta they work for the companies like UPS, Alltel, Federal Reserve, etc.
Hardly a dying language, but yes experienced Cfers are expensive and in
short supply. Good news for all of us :)

But frankly I think that people forget how quickly they themselves probably
learned CF. Don't go around looking for a CF guy, just pull some CIS/CS
majors straight out of college. Most of them now have basic Java/OO/XML
experience. They probably haven't heard of CF and wouldn't know to look for
a job in that area, but learning CF with this background takes very little
time at all. Plus you'll get them on the cheap :)

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RE: Adobe Nails ColdFusion Cofin

2007-07-31 Thread Eric Roberts
Big shocker...a price increase.  Get over it dude.  Every company has cost
increases.  Those cost increases are usually translated into price
increases.  Welcome to reality Dale.  I don't know which market you were
refereeing to before where software is getting cheaper or free...maybe in
the hobby market or the real small business market.  Everywhere else,
enterprise level software is more expensive...with CF being among the least
expensive of the lot.

Eric

-Original Message-
From: Dale Fraser [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2007 7:13 AM
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Subject: RE: Adobe Nails ColdFusion Cofin

What's the deal with people who think that you should be happy to pay more
because there are new features.

That makes no sense what so ever. If there were no new features, then you
wouldn't need a new version. It's the quantity and quality of new features
that makes people decide if they are even going to upgrade. The fact that
it's an upgrade means they get your money again, so there is no need to get
your money again + a premium for new features.

If all the ColdFusion die hard's who go hide in a hole and don't speak up
when something like this stupid pricing happens then these problems are
never going to get addressed. People are too scared to say what they think
and risk tainting their perfect CF image.

I note that Ben & Ray have had nothing to say about the increased pricing,
in fact they just kinda did a soft release and hope that it would sweep
under the carpet, and no one would notice. Very Poor!

Regards
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Re: Adobe Nails ColdFusion Cofin

2007-07-31 Thread Rey Bango
I couldn't have said it better myself Dave.

Rey

Dave Watts wrote:
> If doing so would save them money in the long run, and if this is something
> they could easily discover by, oh, doing their job and calculating ROI, then
> they're not worth doing business with. It's not worth doing business with
> people who can't discern value, because they won't be able to discern your
> true value either.
> 
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Re: Adobe Nails ColdFusion Cofin

2007-07-31 Thread Dinner
Another thing to keep in mind, is, Open Source.

It's starting to Crush, you know?  Still hasn't flipped the
script, but we're getting close.  Seriously close.

Guess it's sorta like the tulip thing, or whatever-  The
stock market, etc.- You ride as long as you can, and
hope you don't stay too long (wipeout).

I don't mind if Adobe wants to ride the wave for a bit
more- heck, seems logical- but mark my words, it
will be a different "model" in not-too-long.

Sorta.  The more things change...

Ha! Mark my words... I love that.  Mark 'em! =P

PS just delete this if it's too off topic :)

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Re: Adobe Nails ColdFusion Cofin

2007-07-31 Thread Bruce Sorge
This happened to me when I was working at Baylor. When new management took
over, they were totally on the MS banswagon and I was forced to learn
..NET/C#. They completely did away with over 5 years of Intranet in
ColdFusion and decided to convert it all to .NET. I was disappointed that
they did not give CF a chance and excited to learn a new technology. I
became frustrated when I discovered that it took me more than twice as long
to write .NET code as it did CF. And I was re-writing the sites that I
originally did in CF, so it is not as though I were not familiar with the
app. In a nutshell, MS thinks "Why go three houses down to get there when
you can go around the block?". I will forever stay with CF if I can. Of
course I keep my .NET skills up just in case.
Since I am in a brand spanky new position at our school district, I get to
call the shots and they just ordered me SQL Server 2005 and CF8 along with
new hardware to go with them. Pretty exciting. And I am going to get my FLEX
skills up to the level where I can re-write the district website in FLEX.
Wooo Hoo.

So Robert, get ready to spend more time coding. Heh.


On 7/31/07, Rey Bango <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Robert,

Its sad to see any developer give up on CF but it sounds that by you
saying, "I just got my company to pay for a series of classes for .net
and vb.net", its a decision that you've been mulling for some time. You
just don't wake up one day and arbitrarily say, "I'm going to drop
several thousands of dollars on retooling our staff".

Rey...


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RE: Adobe Nails ColdFusion Cofin

2007-07-31 Thread Brad Wood
Lol.  Thanks's for the insult. 

I purposely asked on the list because:
1) It was a thread that actually technical for once
2) I figured other people could benefit from the answer
3) I wanted to know how Brian was using it in the context of CF, which
Google probably won't tell me.

Kind of like when you ask a question in the class for the benefit of
everyone else as much as yourself.  Heck, we could just shut this list
down, and forward all houseoffusion traffic to
www.justfriggingoogleit.com but that would sort of defeat the community,
wouldn't it?

~Brad

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On 7/30/07, Brad Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> That sure sounds cool.
> What is it?

www.justfuckinggoogleit.com

http://www.google.com/search?q=fips+140

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Re: Adobe Nails ColdFusion Cofin

2007-07-31 Thread Dinner
On 7/31/07, John Mason wrote:

> JBoss Enterprise4,500

Hey, here's an apple!

> Another point for the Adobe people, I remember when the standard/enterprise
> started and there was a lot complaining back then. With the price gap
> getting wider, maybe it's time for a third version, let's call it a
> "Business" version. That provides some of the least costly new features and
> provides a bridge (or stepping stone) from standard to enterprise. I think
> that would solve a lot of issues with this and take almost nothing for Adobe
> to do.

Excellent post, and idea!  I love the places that are like, "well, what do
you do? How much money do you make? Etc., etc." and then have the
price-swaying power to work with you.  Compromise, in some cases,
and just plain "helping a brother out", in others.

Probably hell on the accountants, and whatnot, and you got X complaining
that Y got Z for AA, or whatever.  Still, I've seen it work (and IIRC, with CF,
back in the day).  Eh.

Great post tho, thanks.

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RE: Adobe Nails ColdFusion Cofin

2007-07-31 Thread Robert Harrison
 
> What's the deal with people who think that you should be happy to pay 
> more because there are new features.

All I can say is, Thanks Adobe. I just got my company to pay for a series of
clases for .net and vb.net. 

Worked out OK for me. Don't know if it will work out for Adobe when we start
dumping CF.

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RE: Adobe Nails ColdFusion Cofin

2007-07-31 Thread Dale Fraser
Ben,

Thanks for your response. I understand that it's not your decision and that
there are factors that impact pricing. I also understand that not everyone
who might have fought for a lower price can always win, it's good that you
had an opportunity to voice your opinion.

As I said in the original post CF8 is a great product and I have purchased
it already. I purchased Standard however when I had budget for Enterprise,
the 25% increase done at launch gave me no opportunity to budget or plan for
this expenditure.

I mainly get upset due to the fact that CF is always being compared to free
products, PHP, .NET & Java and I constantly have to justify the price, to me
and a lot of others this price increase was just unexpected. I really wonder
how many people who were going to purchase Enterprise purchased Standard
instead, either due to the price or the fact that standard has more
features.

Sean,

I can't imagine they will sell more Enterprise because if it's more
expensive people will think it's a real Enterprise product. You say I don't
understand the enterprise market, well you are wrong, I am one of these
customers. If you understood enterprise's you would surely know that budgets
and plans for expenditure need to be submitted at the start of the financial
year. I am now one less enterprise customer, but I guess they can afford to
lose 25% of the enterprise customers and still break even.


Time will tell if this was a good or bad decision or now, we will never know
I guess until version 9 is released and see if anything changes.

PS: Everyone will be very interested now in where they can find clear info
on how the standard features are throttled, I for one don't want to start
debugging code when things go slow to find that the server is doing this. I
want to know in advance of what every limit is. Does such a document exist?

Regards
Dale Fraser

http://dalefraser.blogspot.com


-Original Message-
From: Ben Forta [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Wednesday, 1 August 2007 3:29 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: Adobe Nails ColdFusion Cofin

And I've not weighed in because frankly, there is little for me to add. Like
all of you, I have opinions about pricing, but I am not the final decision
maker - I do voice my opinions, and sometimes they align with those of the
wider CF team and sometimes not, but once a decision is made I have to live
with it. If you are expecting me to denounce a product decision in public
(and no, I am not saying that I would denounce this one) then think again,
that would be more than inappropriate.

And to be very fair, I was asked many times about possible pricing increases
over the past 1/2 year,  including at many of the usergroups we visited. And
my answer every time was that A) we've not raised the price in a while,
there has been pressure to do so, and so it was a possibility, B) *if* there
would be price increases we would try to limit the users impacted by it, C)
if there would be a price increase then it would be an incremental one, and
the price would not increase by several times, D) buy subscriptions now and
you'll not have to deal with this if the price does in fact increase. And I
think that my responses were indeed correct.

And finally, we've been debating price increases for several versions
already. And with each edition we debated the issue for a long time and
decided to postpone any increase. Now, after 5 years or so, we have indeed
increased the price of Enterprise only, while simultaneously making Standard
a more compelling option for even more users. But, others have explained
this already.

Beyond this I have nothing else to say on the topic, at this point I am too
busy with features and customers.

--- Ben





-Original Message-
From: Raymond Camden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2007 11:43 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: Adobe Nails ColdFusion Cofin

Let me be absolutely clear on something Dale.

1) I have nothing to do with the prices Adobe charge. Last time I
checked, I don't work for Adobe. If Adobe wants to hire me, they can
give me a call, but until then, I don't see how you can put this on
me. What the hell did I do?

2) I've been spending my time blogging about features. I figure my
readers care more about that. I haven't been avoiding pricing. I've
just been focused on what interests ME and what I assume interests my
readers. If you want to know what I think about the prices, then ask.
But to act like I'm some kind of conspiracy with Adobe to make people
not notice the prices is flat out wrong.

3) I have NEVER refrained from speaking my mind about CF. Now I'll be
honest and say I've rarely complained. That isn't to say I haven't.
Shoot, I bad mouth CFLOGON all the time, and I freely share WHY it
bugs me.

I hope folks forgive me for my language above but I'm a bit pissed as
to how I'm being dragge

Re: Adobe Nails ColdFusion Cofin

2007-07-31 Thread Dinner
On 7/31/07, Robert Harrison wrote:

> All I can say is, Thanks Adobe. I just got my company to pay for a series of
> clases for .net and vb.net.
>
> Worked out OK for me. Don't know if it will work out for Adobe when we start
> dumping CF.

Eeeew!  dot net?  *gags* (nothing wrong with it, just saying)

CF does some nifty stuff, but you can do it all yourself, too.  A good bit of
CF is open source Java libs and whatnot-  or there's Ruby, which I hear
good stuff about- for those looping and if/then whatnot bits.

Sheesh, aren't there enough .net "don't really know squat" peeps out there?
Do you really want to be counted amongst their number?  MS is like the
Micky D's of computers- but I don't think MS training is as good, in general.

And MS would be lucky to have me.  But I won't do that, neither.

Feel free, to feel good, and whatnot, but a $$ reason as an excuse to go
M$?  That's sorta silly, I think.

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Re: Adobe Nails ColdFusion Cofin

2007-07-31 Thread Raymond Camden
So it makes the WSDL and a test page. CF makes the WSDL as well. Now a
test page - I grant you - would be nice. That could be a good edition
to CFEclipse.

I haven't heard of any issues with the WSDL CF produces. Have you
logged bug reports for these?

On 7/31/07, Charles E. Heizer1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The .Net development not only creates the web service but it also creates 
> WSDL and a Test page to test the web service. Which is really slick compared 
> to what CF produces. I've also found the web service code generated by CF 
> does not include the proper header info, which has caused some application 
> developers a headache consuming some of the web services.
>
>
>
> On 7/30/07 6:06 PM, "James Holmes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On 7/31/07, Charles E. Heizer1 wrote:
> >I just recently started playing with Visual Studio .Net, and it's far
> easier to write web services and create great web content.
>
> How is the .NET code for a webservice easier than writing access="remote"?
>
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>
>
>
> 

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Re: Adobe Nails ColdFusion Cofin

2007-07-31 Thread Rey Bango
Robert,

Its sad to see any developer give up on CF but it sounds that by you 
saying, "I just got my company to pay for a series of classes for .net 
and vb.net", its a decision that you've been mulling for some time. You 
just don't wake up one day and arbitrarily say, "I'm going to drop 
several thousands of dollars on retooling our staff".

Rey...

Robert Harrison wrote:
>  
>> What's the deal with people who think that you should be happy to pay 
>> more because there are new features.
> 
> All I can say is, Thanks Adobe. I just got my company to pay for a series of
> clases for .net and vb.net. 
> 
> Worked out OK for me. Don't know if it will work out for Adobe when we start
> dumping CF.
> 
> Robert B. Harrison
> Director of Interactive services
> Austin & Williams
> 125 Kennedy Drive, Suite 100 Hauppauge NY 11788
> T : 631.231.6600 Ext. 119 
> F : 631.434.7022
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Re: Adobe Nails ColdFusion Cofin

2007-07-31 Thread Raymond Camden
And if we are going to compare Web Service features - CF makes
automatic documentation for web services. That's probably just as
useful as a test page. :)

On 7/31/07, Charles E. Heizer1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The .Net development not only creates the web service but it also creates 
> WSDL and a Test page to test the web service. Which is really slick compared 
> to what CF produces. I've also found the web service code generated by CF 
> does not include the proper header info, which has caused some application 
> developers a headache consuming some of the web services.
>
>
>
> On 7/30/07 6:06 PM, "James Holmes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On 7/31/07, Charles E. Heizer1 wrote:
> >I just recently started playing with Visual Studio .Net, and it's far
> easier to write web services and create great web content.
>
> How is the .NET code for a webservice easier than writing access="remote"?
>
> --
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> http://www.bifrost.com.au/blog/
>
>
>
> 

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Re: Adobe Nails ColdFusion Cofin

2007-07-31 Thread Jim Wright
> With the price gap
> getting wider, maybe it's time for a third version, let's call it a
> "Business" version. That provides some of the least costly new features and
> provides a bridge (or stepping stone) from standard to enterprise. I think
> that would solve a lot of issues with this and take almost nothing for Adobe
> to do.
>

It seems like they have actually done this somewhat, by allowing more
of the "Enterprise" features to be enabled in Standard, just throttled
to one request at a time.  And that without a price increase to
Standard.

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Re: Adobe Nails ColdFusion Cofin

2007-07-31 Thread Carlos Paez Jr
At my group in Motorola we have 5 CF enterprise licenses.  We don't pay for
upgrades, instead we pay ~1500 per license in maintenance and it lasts for 2
years.
And yes, $7,500 is nothing to an enterprise company.


On 7/31/07, Billy Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I tend to be skeptical of earth-shattering predictions coming from someone
> who can't spell 'coffin'.  :)
>
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Brian Kotek [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Monday, July 30, 2007 12:19 PM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: Re: Adobe Nails ColdFusion Cofin
>
>
> I don't get this at all. People are flipping out about Enterprise going up
> in cost. How many people run Enterprise?! The standard version stays the
> same and gets a huge bump in features. The people complaining are talking
> like they raised the price of both versions. CF standard is a STEAL at
> $1299, especially with what they have added.
>
> To people who need extremely high performance (server monitoring,
> unlimited
> cfthread, etc.), multiple instances, gov't approved encryption, and all
> the
> rest, $7,500 is nothing for an enterprise application server that does
> everything CF does as easily as CF does it.
>
> For goodness sake people, take a deep breath and stop freaking out.
>
>
>
>
> 

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RE: Adobe Nails ColdFusion Cofin

2007-07-31 Thread Robert Harrison
> Its sad to see any developer give up on CF but it sounds that by you
saying...

I just want to get Adobe to drop the price. It's a hard sell to some clients
and we've lost some opportunities because of it. I'll always continue to use
CF as my mainstay, but also learning .net is not a bad thing... And whenever
we have lost a site it's always been to .net technology.

For what it's worth I've always been, and still am a CF advocate. But the
reality is it's a business market and it's doesn't hurt to have alternative
options to give your clients.


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Re: Adobe Nails ColdFusion Cofin

2007-07-31 Thread Tony
any idea when those of us with the upgrade subscription thingie
can expect our copies to show up?

thanks
tony :)

On 7/31/07, Dave Watts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > What's the deal with people who think that you should be
> > happy to pay more because there are new features.
>
> No one said anything about being happy. You should, however, expect to pay
> more because there are new features, just like you do with every other
> product in existence.
>
> > If all the ColdFusion die hard's who go hide in a hole and
> > don't speak up when something like this stupid pricing
> > happens then these problems are never going to get addressed.
> > People are too scared to say what they think and risk
> > tainting their perfect CF image.
>
> I think you're reading a whole lot into nothing. Personally, I don't think
> the pricing is a problem. If I did, then I'd agree with you. Either it's
> worth the price to you, or it isn't. I do notice it's a whole lot cheaper
> than Oracle or SQL Server database servers.
>
> These "problems", like any other market issues, will be decided by the
> market. I suspect that the market of enterprise buyers will not be put off
> by the price increase of CF Enterprise.
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Re: Adobe Nails ColdFusion Cofin

2007-07-31 Thread Dinner
On 7/31/07, Raymond Camden wrote:

> I hope folks forgive me for my language above but I'm a bit pissed as
> to how I'm being dragged into this.

Dudes, if this is Ray pissed, I'm like, "what's enraged look like?"

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RE: Adobe Nails ColdFusion Cofin

2007-07-31 Thread John Mason
Dale, I did a quick search for software pricing to put the CF8 pricing in
some perspective..

Windows 2003 Enterprise 3,443
Windows 2003 Standard   958

Oracle 10g Enterprise   40,000
Oracle 10g Standard 4,995

Sql Server Enterprise   13,699
Sql Server Standard 1,754

JBoss Enterprise4,500

Now as far as software goes, CF8 is reasonably priced. If you look at just
J2ee servers or Web app servers, yea CF8 Ent is very high. Yes, this will
hurt their sales. It's simply a point for you to determine if the features
are worth it for you or not. I'm sure BlueDragon and the others will
incorporate a lot of those same features down the road just like Adobe
adopted cfthread from BlueDragon. So no biggie, wait 6 months..

Another point for the Adobe people, I remember when the standard/enterprise
started and there was a lot complaining back then. With the price gap
getting wider, maybe it's time for a third version, let's call it a
"Business" version. That provides some of the least costly new features and
provides a bridge (or stepping stone) from standard to enterprise. I think
that would solve a lot of issues with this and take almost nothing for Adobe
to do.

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RE: Adobe Nails ColdFusion Cofin

2007-07-31 Thread Ben Forta
I know I am going to regret saying this, but what the heck ...

Regardless of how anyone feels about the price change, just know that this
decision was NOT made in a vacuum. In fact, the team polled lots of
ColdFusion customers to ask them their opinion on this. And the general
feedback, even from those who would rather we not charge more, was that the
price change was fair and not inappropriate.

I know this won't change how anyone feels about it, but just know that we do
take the time to research this thoroughly - probably more so than many who
are making "definitive" statements on the subject.

--- Ben




-Original Message-
From: Sean Corfield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2007 11:09 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: Adobe Nails ColdFusion Cofin

On 7/31/07, Dale Fraser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What's the deal with people who think that you should be happy to pay more
> because there are new features.

I think you're completely missing the point: there are many companies
out there that view CFMX 7 as "too cheap" at $3k/CPU. They don't think
it is serious software so they won't buy it. The increased price
actually helps sell to those enterprise companies. And the (frankly)
small price hike won't put other enterprises off.

If you think enterprise is too expensive, you simply aren't an
enterprise company!

Hardly any enterprise software costs less than $6k/CPU. Go look at
WebLogic and WebSphere (or almost anything from IBM!). Go look at
Oracle.

Someone pointed at the DataDirect drivers which cost $4k retail -
included in CF Enterprise.

> That makes no sense what so ever.

It makes perfect sense - if you understand the enterprise market.

> People are too scared to say what they think
> and risk tainting their perfect CF image.

No, this thread has 60+ responses already so folks are certainly
coming out and saying what they think - and they're mostly not on your
side in this discussion because they understand the market better than
you do.
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Re: Adobe Nails ColdFusion Cofin

2007-07-31 Thread Doug Bezona
I would love to see the ROI calculation on this decision:

x amount for classes
x amount for time to attend the classes (as an aside, learn C# instead of
vb.net... you will thank me later)
x time to actually get proficient at .NET
x copies of Visual Studio
x time to convert existing CF code

Seems you could buy a lot of copies of CF Enterprise with that.

Now, I'm pretty pragmatic about language selection - CF is not the only, or
always the best, choice, but this type of knee-jerk reaction to a minor
price hike strikes me as a more than a bit over the top.

On 7/31/07, Robert Harrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> > What's the deal with people who think that you should be happy to pay
> > more because there are new features.
>
> All I can say is, Thanks Adobe. I just got my company to pay for a series
> of
> clases for .net and vb.net.
>
> Worked out OK for me. Don't know if it will work out for Adobe when we
> start
> dumping CF.
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Re: Adobe Nails ColdFusion Cofin

2007-07-31 Thread Charles E. Heizer1
Thanks,
I look at it from a support contract side as well, I'm not sure but I would 
have to go back and check to make sure the Oracle JDBC driver is a "Adobe" 
supported model in the Standard edition when  buying the support agreement.

Trust me, I really don't want to jump ship but when people keep whispering 
PHP/ASP etc. to management, and the product cost is, well free. It makes it a 
really hard sell. We have also had,in the past a really hard time finding good 
quality CF developers. Which management also takes as a sign that CF is not 
worth the effort.

Charles


On 7/30/07 3:53 PM, "John Mason" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

You can use the Oracle j2ee drivers (that comes with Oracle) to work with CF
standard. Just a little more work on your end, but it works fine.

This is for Oracle 10g, it may be slightly different for other versions..
-Find the ojdbc14.jar driver on your oracle installation -Put that jar into
your WEB-INF\lib -In coldfusion, create a new datasource and choose "other"
as the driver
-JDBC URL would be jdbc:oracle:thin:@ip:port:database
-Driver Class oracle.jdbc.OracleDriver

Now why does CF standard not just go ahead and do this for you. Well franky
I don't know, but it really doesn't matter if you have the drivers anyway.
It does confuse the hack out of people, which is bad. Wanted to make sure
you knew this before you decided to jump ship :)


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-Original Message-
From: Charles E. Heizer1 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, July 30, 2007 1:57 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: Adobe Nails ColdFusion Cofin

So, I have to agree with Dale... Adobe has put a bullet in CF. For example,
Standard Edition would be fine for me but I need Oracle access and now I
need to pay twice that just to do supported Oracle connectivity.  We are an
enterprise and when I discussed this with management they came back and said
we should just invest our time in ASP.NET. We can retrain our developers,
and not worry about buying upgrades and we'll get new features as they come
out. You know, I don't disagree with them. I just recently started playing
with Visual Studio .Net, and it's far easier to write web services and
create great web content.

Adobe thanks for the memories, a user/developer since version 4.5.

- Charles


On 7/30/07 5:27 AM, "Adam Haskell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

I want to echo what Sean said...I looked at CF8 and thought, "wow finally a
product that I would really label Enterprise." Not to say CF7 wasn't
Enterprise, it had some great features and was a great release, but I think
the monitoring and some of the Administration changes helped make it really
enterprise friendly. Thats not mentioning the performance enhancements,
exchange integration (which currently means nothing to Lotus Shops bleh),
and whole suite of ajax tools that really make CF shine as a UI web layer
for large Java apps.

You have to look at this product and realize enterprise is worthless to you
unless you really need super scalability. Standard has it all, albeit
limited/throttled. Sure cfthread and exchange integration and PDF (?) are
throttled but they are available and until you have 100+ (dare I say
probably more) concurrent users using the exact same functionality
Enterprise means very little. Its like a computer, my Mom doesn't need a
dual core 64bit AMD with 2gig of ram and 256mb dedicate graphics card
running iSCSI to send me pictures and read email (unless she is running
Vista then she might ;) ). Gone are the days where you have to have
enterprise to play with those nifty event gateways. If enterprise looks to
expensive to you then you probably don't need it, or you need to look at
some other Enterprise software costs and revisit in 15 minutes. Hell I say
that single move by Adobe to offer a more complete Standard Edition will
open more doors for ColdFusion than any single feature. I say Bravo!

Adam Haskell

On 7/30/07, Sean Corfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On 7/29/07, Michael Dinowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > As for your post on CF 8 being a dead product because of the price
> > increase, note that the increase if for Enterprise. How many people
> > here (other than me) actually use or need enterprise.
>
> Me!
>
> To be honest, the difference between $3,000/CPU and $3,750/CPU is
> pretty negligible in an enterprise world. For the - new-in-8 -
> (multi-)server monitoring and RDS/Admin user management features,
> unlimited CFTHREAD and unlimited MS Exchange integration, that extra
> $750/CPU is well worth it (as well as the general reasons Enterprise
> is worth paying more for: unlimited event gateways, PDF/document
> services, re

Re: Adobe Nails ColdFusion Cofin

2007-07-31 Thread Sean Corfield
On 7/30/07, Larry Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> We use it at here at ATCC. But given this price increase we'll probably be 
> moving over to Blue Dragon.

Which would leave you without many of the real enterprise features: MS
Exchange Integration, SMS/IM/JMS event gateways, high-performance
report generation, high-performance PDF processing and
high-performance email service, integrated server monitoring and
self-healing, multi-user security for administrator and RDS.

I'd be curious to know what Enterprise Edition features you currently
use? Just the multi-server install setup perhaps?
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Re: Adobe Nails ColdFusion Cofin

2007-07-31 Thread Charles E. Heizer1
The .Net development not only creates the web service but it also creates WSDL 
and a Test page to test the web service. Which is really slick compared to what 
CF produces. I've also found the web service code generated by CF does not 
include the proper header info, which has caused some application developers a 
headache consuming some of the web services.



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On 7/31/07, Charles E. Heizer1 wrote:
>I just recently started playing with Visual Studio .Net, and it's far
easier to write web services and create great web content.

How is the .NET code for a webservice easier than writing access="remote"?

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RE: Adobe Nails ColdFusion Cofin

2007-07-31 Thread Ben Forta
And I've not weighed in because frankly, there is little for me to add. Like
all of you, I have opinions about pricing, but I am not the final decision
maker - I do voice my opinions, and sometimes they align with those of the
wider CF team and sometimes not, but once a decision is made I have to live
with it. If you are expecting me to denounce a product decision in public
(and no, I am not saying that I would denounce this one) then think again,
that would be more than inappropriate.

And to be very fair, I was asked many times about possible pricing increases
over the past 1/2 year,  including at many of the usergroups we visited. And
my answer every time was that A) we've not raised the price in a while,
there has been pressure to do so, and so it was a possibility, B) *if* there
would be price increases we would try to limit the users impacted by it, C)
if there would be a price increase then it would be an incremental one, and
the price would not increase by several times, D) buy subscriptions now and
you'll not have to deal with this if the price does in fact increase. And I
think that my responses were indeed correct.

And finally, we've been debating price increases for several versions
already. And with each edition we debated the issue for a long time and
decided to postpone any increase. Now, after 5 years or so, we have indeed
increased the price of Enterprise only, while simultaneously making Standard
a more compelling option for even more users. But, others have explained
this already.

Beyond this I have nothing else to say on the topic, at this point I am too
busy with features and customers.

--- Ben





-Original Message-
From: Raymond Camden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2007 11:43 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: Adobe Nails ColdFusion Cofin

Let me be absolutely clear on something Dale.

1) I have nothing to do with the prices Adobe charge. Last time I
checked, I don't work for Adobe. If Adobe wants to hire me, they can
give me a call, but until then, I don't see how you can put this on
me. What the hell did I do?

2) I've been spending my time blogging about features. I figure my
readers care more about that. I haven't been avoiding pricing. I've
just been focused on what interests ME and what I assume interests my
readers. If you want to know what I think about the prices, then ask.
But to act like I'm some kind of conspiracy with Adobe to make people
not notice the prices is flat out wrong.

3) I have NEVER refrained from speaking my mind about CF. Now I'll be
honest and say I've rarely complained. That isn't to say I haven't.
Shoot, I bad mouth CFLOGON all the time, and I freely share WHY it
bugs me.

I hope folks forgive me for my language above but I'm a bit pissed as
to how I'm being dragged into this.


On 7/31/07, Dale Fraser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What's the deal with people who think that you should be happy to pay more
> because there are new features.
>
> That makes no sense what so ever. If there were no new features, then you
> wouldn't need a new version. It's the quantity and quality of new features
> that makes people decide if they are even going to upgrade. The fact that
> it's an upgrade means they get your money again, so there is no need to
get
> your money again + a premium for new features.
>
> If all the ColdFusion die hard's who go hide in a hole and don't speak up
> when something like this stupid pricing happens then these problems are
> never going to get addressed. People are too scared to say what they think
> and risk tainting their perfect CF image.
>
> I note that Ben & Ray have had nothing to say about the increased pricing,
> in fact they just kinda did a soft release and hope that it would sweep
> under the carpet, and no one would notice. Very Poor!
>
> Regards
> Dale Fraser
>
> http://dalefraser.blogspot.com
>
>
>
>
> 



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Re: Adobe Nails ColdFusion Cofin

2007-07-31 Thread Rick Root
On 7/31/07, Dawson, Michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> We use it at here at ATCC. But given this price increase we'll
> probably be moving over to Blue Dragon.

Now *THAT* is perfectly reasonable.

As long as you keep in mind that you're giving up a lot of features
that Adobe Coldfusion offers that Bluedragon does not currently offer,
like flash remoting, event gateways, cfreport, flash forms,
cfexchange, cfpresentation,

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RE: Adobe Nails ColdFusion Cofin

2007-07-31 Thread Bill Betournay
That made my day.  LOL

Thanks

Bill

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From: Will Tomlinson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: 30 July 2007 19:26
To: CF-Talk
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>> That sure sounds cool.
>> What is it?
>
>www.justfuckinggoogleit.com


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Re: Adobe Nails ColdFusion Cofin

2007-07-31 Thread Raymond Camden
Let me be absolutely clear on something Dale.

1) I have nothing to do with the prices Adobe charge. Last time I
checked, I don't work for Adobe. If Adobe wants to hire me, they can
give me a call, but until then, I don't see how you can put this on
me. What the hell did I do?

2) I've been spending my time blogging about features. I figure my
readers care more about that. I haven't been avoiding pricing. I've
just been focused on what interests ME and what I assume interests my
readers. If you want to know what I think about the prices, then ask.
But to act like I'm some kind of conspiracy with Adobe to make people
not notice the prices is flat out wrong.

3) I have NEVER refrained from speaking my mind about CF. Now I'll be
honest and say I've rarely complained. That isn't to say I haven't.
Shoot, I bad mouth CFLOGON all the time, and I freely share WHY it
bugs me.

I hope folks forgive me for my language above but I'm a bit pissed as
to how I'm being dragged into this.


On 7/31/07, Dale Fraser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What's the deal with people who think that you should be happy to pay more
> because there are new features.
>
> That makes no sense what so ever. If there were no new features, then you
> wouldn't need a new version. It's the quantity and quality of new features
> that makes people decide if they are even going to upgrade. The fact that
> it's an upgrade means they get your money again, so there is no need to get
> your money again + a premium for new features.
>
> If all the ColdFusion die hard's who go hide in a hole and don't speak up
> when something like this stupid pricing happens then these problems are
> never going to get addressed. People are too scared to say what they think
> and risk tainting their perfect CF image.
>
> I note that Ben & Ray have had nothing to say about the increased pricing,
> in fact they just kinda did a soft release and hope that it would sweep
> under the carpet, and no one would notice. Very Poor!
>
> Regards
> Dale Fraser
>
> http://dalefraser.blogspot.com
>
>
>
>
> 

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Re: Adobe Nails ColdFusion Cofin

2007-07-31 Thread Casey C Cook
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Where are my tax dollars going.

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Charles E. Heizer1 wrote:
> to pay twice that just to do supported Oracle connectivity.  We are an
> enterprise and when I discussed this with management they came back and 
said
> we should just invest our time in ASP.NET. We can retrain our 
developers, and
> not worry about buying upgrades and we'll get new features as they come 
out.

your "enterprise" shop will pay to re-train developers but not an extra 
$2000 
for their app server? geez, that's the stupidest thing i've heard in a 
long 
while and working w/the government here, i hear a lot of really dumb 
ideas.



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Re: Adobe Nails ColdFusion Cofin

2007-07-31 Thread James Holmes
Agreed - Enterprise was our first choice. CF cost nothing compared to
the SPARC servers on which we run it, and don't even ask what Oracle
(and its SPARC hardware) costs.

On 7/31/07, Dave Watts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Unless the Oracle supplied driver has changed recently, some
> > things don't work the same as the DataDirect CF Oracle
> > driver, like stored procs returning results from ref cursors
> > and BLOBS. If it has changed, great.
>
> So, then, if you need Enterprise features, you buy Enterprise. Or, you can
> just go buy DataDirect Connect for JDBC yourself, and pay ~$5K.


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Re: Adobe Nails ColdFusion Cofin

2007-07-31 Thread Sean Corfield
On 7/31/07, Dale Fraser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What's the deal with people who think that you should be happy to pay more
> because there are new features.

I think you're completely missing the point: there are many companies
out there that view CFMX 7 as "too cheap" at $3k/CPU. They don't think
it is serious software so they won't buy it. The increased price
actually helps sell to those enterprise companies. And the (frankly)
small price hike won't put other enterprises off.

If you think enterprise is too expensive, you simply aren't an
enterprise company!

Hardly any enterprise software costs less than $6k/CPU. Go look at
WebLogic and WebSphere (or almost anything from IBM!). Go look at
Oracle.

Someone pointed at the DataDirect drivers which cost $4k retail -
included in CF Enterprise.

> That makes no sense what so ever.

It makes perfect sense - if you understand the enterprise market.

> People are too scared to say what they think
> and risk tainting their perfect CF image.

No, this thread has 60+ responses already so folks are certainly
coming out and saying what they think - and they're mostly not on your
side in this discussion because they understand the market better than
you do.
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Re: Adobe Nails ColdFusion Cofin

2007-07-31 Thread Sean Corfield
On 7/30/07, John Mason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ok, my forth attempt to post this. Jeez, the list server was down for two
> attempts and then I got 2 bounces saying my message is over 100 lines.

No, we got all four of your messages. The warning about being over 100
lines is just a warning - because you didn't trim quotes in your
reply.
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Re: Adobe Nails ColdFusion Cofin

2007-07-31 Thread Rick Root
On 7/31/07, Doug Bezona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Why not just use Standard, and use the free JDBC drivers you can
> > download from Oracle themselves, and just make an 'other' connection?
>
> Or, you can buy the DataDirect Oracle driver yourself:
> http://www.programmers.com/ppi_us/Product.aspx?sku=DB1%20017X
>
> Of course, once you see what it costs retail, you may rethink CF Enterprise
> being "expensive"

No doubt about that!  DB2 drivers are REALLY REALLY expensive.  IBM
wanted to charge us like $30k for "DB2/Connect" to give us the JDBC
drivers direct from IBM.

If you use free drivers, you get no support from Adobe.  Or anyone.
At least with CF Enterprise using the included drivers, you get
support from Adobe if you need it.

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