FWIW,
MM.. are you listening? I think (and hope - for your sake) you are.
The people speaking on this list are the majority of "hard-core" developers
and hosting companies using your newly-gained product. The theory begun by
JJ and Jeremy a while ago, I believe, still holds true today. The product
need not be sanctioned behind a licensing wall that makes it too expensive
for the average company to utilize. Keep it cost effective, and you'll get
them hooked.. and the third-level markets will give rise to new found
profits.
At the VERY least, those of us who own and this product now should be given
the opportunity to upgrade to this new licensing port for a VERY cheap cost.
We have been the advocates for this product since it's inception and have
stuck by it, through some of the toughest parts of it's evolution.
My thought is that this new licensing model is a mistake. It's just my
opinion, and comes with a double-your-money-back guarantee. However, the
reality is that if you're looking for R&D money to get the worms out of CF,
and to make it a more profitable product, the LAST people you want to
penalize are your current and loyal followers.
While I completely believe in CF, and find it to be the most valuable tool
in my arsenal of talents, I also have to make a living. Attempting to
amortize $5000+ over a CPU (or two) is simply going to price you out of our
realm, forcing our company (and I fear others) into a competition game of
"who has the best development platform for the least cost." (I.e., how can
we still build awesome websites and make a profit hosting them as well?) If
CF becomes this costly to those of us who use it the most, you're going to
find that your profits will dwindle.. not rise.
My suggestion... Talk to us. Ask us how we can help you to make CF more
profitable. Bring the (obvious) issue into the forground, and let's discuss
it. Let's see what we can do to make CF a powerhouse of profit for you, and
one-helluva product for us to use and be proud of. In turn, we will give
you a plethora and wealth of ideas and suggestions that just may help you
tap into new markets you didn't even think you had. Otherwise, cut your
losses and put CF into open source. Either way, the community will go on.
And, no doubt, new markets will emerge from the need of third-party and
pre-packaged code that we will buy, using the platform we know best...
especially if it's a cost effective set of solutions. But don't make the
mistake of pricing yourself into oblivion.
You can see how many people on this list are already looking for other
solutions. Count them, and multiply by $5000 (or even $10000 if you were
thinking they would buy the licensing for 2 machines or more). Is it still
a good move? What if that count rises to 100, or 1000? Does it STILL make
financial sense?
Talk to us, guys. We're here to help make this work.. and to help MM merge
successfully into this market. (I think I speak for many of us.. maybe not.
If I'm wrong, I'm sure I'll hear about it shortly.) If you choose not to do
so, I fear that the first move you're making (raising the cost of doing
business with you to a level that many of us cannot justify) may just leave
too sour a taste in our mouths to continue down that path.
Just my HO..
Lee Fuller
Chief Technical Officer
PrimeDNA Corp / AAA Web Hosting Corp
"We ARE the net."
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