seriously, an excellent constructive suggestion. If Microsoft is thinking
outside the box these days what with open-sourcing some of their code, then
MM might do well to do the same!
-Patrick Harkins
-----Original Message-----
From: Adam Reynolds
Christine,
The problem is one of market penetration. What you need to do is provide a
free/cheap version of CF that has most of the functionality built in that
would allow web hosting companies to be able to offer PHP/.Net/CF as a
solution at the same price AND be HAPPY offering CF.
You would then have 3 versions:
ColdFusion MX
ColdFusion MX Pro
ColdFusion MX Ent
'lite' didn't work because it was crippled. You need something that 85% of
the web development community can use successfully. (i.e. Remove Verity).
Treat it as a marketing excercise.
Make full use of www.coldfusion.com . Don't have it all flashified. Have a
simple accessible web site that gives people access to the knowledgebase as
well as a simplified interface to the exchange. Provide libraries of
components ready to use, provide links to other sites that help CF
developers (houseoffusion, cflib.org, ICQ channels). All this helps. If
flash is important have a flash with CF section.
You really do need to provide a free version of CF with a GOOD subset of
functionality. Even if the free version is an old version of CF (with the
next release around the corner). I would include a licence with every Studio
MX sold. A developer could then provide this licence to their hosting/IT
department and ask them to provide CF hosting :)
Adam
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