Re: IDE announced: IDE/Compiler Business Model

2008-11-20 Thread Tom Chiverton
On Thursday 20 Nov 2008, Aaron Rouse wrote: We cannot take advantage of J2EE here because we store all the files on a NETAPP and it is my understanding that JRun needs to have a drive letter or something to that effect to get to the files when running in that configuration. Security rules

Re: IDE announced: IDE/Compiler Business Model

2008-11-20 Thread Nitai @ SixSigns
Ok, I missed the out of the box part. Honestly, we run Stored Procedures in Oracle with the Oracle driver without problems. Sure sometimes you need to write a variable with SQL statements (seem strange) to make it work within a SP, but all in all it always worked. Just as a side note. On

Re: IDE announced: IDE/Compiler Business Model

2008-11-20 Thread Aaron Rouse
I know when I have tried using those drivers in the past with pre-existing stored procedures that returned cursors that they did not function correctly but I do not recall the issue since that was 1-2 years ago. On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 3:59 AM, Nitai @ SixSigns [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Ok, I

Re: IDE announced: IDE/Compiler Business Model

2008-11-20 Thread Aaron Rouse
To be honest I do not know 100% how it is setup because as I said we are not allowed to get involved to that detail. It is my understanding it is the difference of using \\netapp\blah v. F:\ the latter being something they cannot setup due to needing an AD account that gives access to all

Re: IDE announced: IDE/Compiler Business Model

2008-11-20 Thread Andrew Scott
Tom you have surprised me there //machinename/folder/filename Can get access to the file, you dont need to map it to a drive letter, and I think that is what he refers too. On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 8:52 PM, Tom Chiverton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 20 Nov 2008, Aaron Rouse

Re: IDE announced: IDE/Compiler Business Model

2008-11-20 Thread Andrew Scott
That doesnt make sense When you use \\machinename\folder\filenamefile://machinename/folder/filenameyou will still need to be authenticated, are they saying that they prefer to use an account that is not in the AD? What is that all about? I would have thought a group in the AD sperate to

Re: IDE announced: IDE/Compiler Business Model

2008-11-20 Thread Nitai @ SixSigns
Still sucks today :-( On Nov 20, 2008, at 1:28 PM, Aaron Rouse wrote: I know when I have tried using those drivers in the past with pre- existing stored procedures that returned cursors that they did not function correctly but I do not recall the issue since that was 1-2 years ago. On

Re: IDE announced: IDE/Compiler Business Model

2008-11-20 Thread Tom Chiverton
On Thursday 20 Nov 2008, Andrew Scott wrote: //machinename/folder/filename Can get access to the file, you dont need to map it to a drive letter, and Yeah, I know that, and using that sort of path should be fine, if that's what the sys. admins. want him to use. -- Tom Chiverton Helping to

Re: IDE announced: IDE/Compiler Business Model

2008-11-20 Thread Aaron Rouse
I really do not remember the exact rule and reason, too much time has passed since I tackled that argument with them. I do remember finding plenty of evidence that actually supported their stance, which typically is not the case. So whatever the issue is/was would be a valid issue in regards to

Re: IDE announced: IDE/Compiler Business Model

2008-11-20 Thread Tom Chiverton
On Thursday 20 Nov 2008, Aaron Rouse wrote: At this point it does not matter anyway, corporate has long since decided that CF is not the avenue to continue down after having it as a standard for 8 or so years. That's a real shame :-( OOI did you try engaging with Adobe (or a local reseller) to

Re: IDE announced: IDE/Compiler Business Model

2008-11-20 Thread Aaron Rouse
This is just speculation on my part but I think someone high up got pissed off when the audit of Adobe and Macromedia products on the network happened. That audit happened when the two companies became one, so been awhile. Or it could just be that the MS marketing folks do a better job because

Re: IDE announced: IDE/Compiler Business Model

2008-11-20 Thread Dave Watts
- it's definitely hurting sales I can't speak for you, but we've definitely lost a lot of CF sales because of the cost of the server side. A lot of client want to host their own. If the developers are losing sales I think that can reasonably translate into Adobe loosing sales. It is a

Re: IDE announced: IDE/Compiler Business Model

2008-11-20 Thread Tom Chiverton
On Thursday 20 Nov 2008, Aaron Rouse wrote: because they certainly sold someone high up on the idea that Sharepoint can do everything. Doesn't look as cool as http://www.adobe.com/devnet/dreamweaver/articles/getting_started_with_ice_eu_03.html though :-) -- Tom Chiverton Helping to

Re: IDE announced: IDE/Compiler Business Model

2008-11-20 Thread Adam Haskell
Don't forget Thermo/Flash Catalyst when talking about amazing things done with Eclipse... Adam On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 10:28 PM, Gerald Guido [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: I'm notoriously fickle though and one or two killers features will have me sold I have seen some *Astounding* things done

Re: IDE announced: IDE/Compiler Business Model

2008-11-20 Thread Craigsell
The Datadirect Driver for Oracle supports returned ref cursors but not encryption. The Oracle Thin Client Driver supports encryption but not returned ref cursors. I seem to recall the older Data Direct drivers did not support ref cursors but that was some time ago

Re: IDE announced: IDE/Compiler Business Model

2008-11-19 Thread Nitai @ SixSigns
From Adobe's standpoint is probably does not make sense to open source or give their engine away for free when there is Railo and OpenBD. On Nov 19, 2008, at 9:37 PM, Robert Harrison wrote: I love CF and would really like to see Adobe fix this business model. It would definitely be

Re: IDE announced: IDE/Compiler Business Model

2008-11-19 Thread Charlie Griefer
On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 12:37 PM, Robert Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If anything they should charge $500 for an IDE and give away ColdFusion for free That is so much better of a business model. The main problem selling CF web sites is the cost to deploy a site. Too much of the burden

Re: IDE announced: IDE/Compiler Business Model

2008-11-19 Thread Aaron Rouse
While sales might be getting hurt right now due to the cost of the product. The product must be selling well enough for them since they are clearly continuing to invest in it via making new versions. My only complaint is the need to run Enterprise for Oracle support out of the box when

RE: IDE announced: IDE/Compiler Business Model

2008-11-19 Thread Robert Harrison
- it's definitely hurting sales I can't speak for you, but we've definitely lost a lot of CF sales because of the cost of the server side. A lot of client want to host their own. If the developers are losing sales I think that can reasonably translate into Adobe loosing sales. Robert B.

Re: IDE announced: IDE/Compiler Business Model

2008-11-19 Thread Ian Skinner
Aaron Rouse wrote: My only complaint is the need to run Enterprise for Oracle support out of the box Then your complaint is probably with Oracle. It is my, possible very wrong, understanding that a big factor in the price difference between Standard and Enterprise is the license fee for

Re: IDE announced: IDE/Compiler Business Model

2008-11-19 Thread Aaron Rouse
I prefer to remain ignorant and just complain about the cost difference of the product I am telling people to buy. After all they do not care if it is Oracle, Santa Clause or Adobe causing it to be significantly more money. If that is the actual reason then seems a little silly since Oracle is

Re: IDE announced: IDE/Compiler Business Model

2008-11-19 Thread Charlie Griefer
On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 1:06 PM, Robert Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - it's definitely hurting sales I can't speak for you, but we've definitely lost a lot of CF sales because of the cost of the server side. A lot of client want to host their own. If the developers are losing sales I

RE: IDE announced: IDE/Compiler Business Model

2008-11-19 Thread Craig Dudley
. -Original Message- From: Charlie Griefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2008 8:50 PM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: IDE announced: IDE/Compiler Business Model On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 12:37 PM, Robert Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If anything they should

Re: IDE announced: IDE/Compiler Business Model

2008-11-19 Thread Charlie Griefer
On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 1:47 PM, Craig Dudley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That would be me :p Persoanlly I don't care whether they charge me for the server or the IDE, or perhaps even both as long as it's only roughly the same amount in total. I'm in the rather unique position of having one

Re: IDE announced: IDE/Compiler Business Model

2008-11-19 Thread Nick Giovanni
extra features to make me part with my hard earned cash, I ssupect many other cfeclipse users feel the same. Craig. -Original Message- From: Charlie Griefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2008 8:50 PM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: IDE announced: IDE/Compiler

Re: IDE announced: IDE/Compiler Business Model

2008-11-19 Thread Charlie Griefer
On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 2:00 PM, Nick Giovanni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My point regarding cfeclipse is that it works really, REALLY well CFeclipse has been buggy (for lack of a better term) for me. I prefer the term eccentric :) It's not without its bugs and quirks. But for the most part,

Re: IDE announced: IDE/Compiler Business Model

2008-11-19 Thread Aaron Rouse
. Craig. -Original Message- From: Charlie Griefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2008 8:50 PM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: IDE announced: IDE/Compiler Business Model On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 12:37 PM, Robert Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: IDE announced: IDE/Compiler Business Model

2008-11-19 Thread Matthew Williams
They can get away with it because their (Oracle) thin client driver sucks ;). The DataDirect version of the driver is far superior. It could be argued, however, that a company that can put the funds out for an Enterprise SQL server, it should be able to front funds for an Enterprise web

Re: IDE announced: IDE/Compiler Business Model

2008-11-19 Thread Aaron Rouse
In our particular case corporate pays or has been paying for the Oracle license/deal that covers the entire company's use and most of that is not for web applications. Then when someone wants to build a web based application it is up to them to front the bill for the application and whatever

RE: IDE announced: IDE/Compiler Business Model

2008-11-19 Thread Craig Dudley
though and one or two killers features will have me sold -Original Message- From: Charlie Griefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2008 9:55 PM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: IDE announced: IDE/Compiler Business Model On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 1:47 PM, Craig Dudley [EMAIL

Re: IDE announced: IDE/Compiler Business Model

2008-11-19 Thread Nitai @ SixSigns
You dont need the Enterprise product to run Oracle on it. On Nov 19, 2008, at 9:51 PM, Aaron Rouse wrote: While sales might be getting hurt right now due to the cost of the product. The product must be selling well enough for them since they are clearly continuing to invest in it via

Re: IDE announced: IDE/Compiler Business Model

2008-11-19 Thread s. isaac dealey
Good Griefer said: In that limited scenario, sure. But how many customers are making purchases... which equates to revenue? By providing a free version, Adobe loses that revenue and gains a few more customers (who are not providing any additional revenue). Or to paraphrase: Does it make

Re: IDE announced: IDE/Compiler Business Model

2008-11-19 Thread Charlie Griefer
On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 2:29 PM, s. isaac dealey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good Griefer said: In that limited scenario, sure. But how many customers are making purchases... which equates to revenue? By providing a free version, Adobe loses that revenue and gains a few more customers (who

Re: IDE announced: IDE/Compiler Business Model

2008-11-19 Thread s. isaac dealey
Or to paraphrase: Does it make sense to change our business model to give currently paying customers a freebie, in order to chase after people who are currently unwilling to pay? Indeed :) The major gist here being that, while they know for a fact that the current customers have

Re: IDE announced: IDE/Compiler Business Model

2008-11-19 Thread James Holmes
It's a DataDirect driver for Oracle, not an Oracle driver. So if there's a huge price difference, it's DataDirect with whom the issue lies. Having said that, the commercial DataDirect driver costs more than all of CF Enterprise, so I think we're getting a good deal. I also like being able to run

Re: IDE announced: IDE/Compiler Business Model

2008-11-19 Thread Aaron Rouse
I said out of the box and you do indeed need Enterprise if you want to do it out of the box or at least to run stored procedures with any real success. Been down the route of other avenues to access Oracle and each has some gotchas. On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 4:25 PM, Nitai @ SixSigns [EMAIL

Re: IDE announced: IDE/Compiler Business Model

2008-11-19 Thread Aaron Rouse
We cannot take advantage of J2EE here because we store all the files on a NETAPP and it is my understanding that JRun needs to have a drive letter or something to that effect to get to the files when running in that configuration. Security rules prevent us from making a file share that uses an

Re: IDE announced: IDE/Compiler Business Model

2008-11-19 Thread Gerald Guido
I'm notoriously fickle though and one or two killers features will have me sold I have seen some *Astounding* things done with Eclipse. Aptana, Yoxos, MyEclipse and Flex Builder come to mind right off the bat. Keep in mind that this is Adobe's brain trust we are talking about. With that said, I