Why were you looking at enterprise instead of standard?

--Ben Doom

Matthew Blatchley wrote:
> I started to talk to our higher ups about getting an Enterprise edition of 
> CF8, and then I looked at the price.
> 
>     We've got CF, PHP, and .NET developers here and now I've been trumped 
> because of the price of CF8....they'll never go for a application server 
> that costs almost 8k.
> 
> Anyone else finding that they can't compete in such a competitive 
> development market with a price tag like that or is it just us?
> 
> The new features rock no doubt, but telling a manager that they have to pay 
> that much, they simply laughed in my face.  Now I have to go and face the 
> other developers knowing full well that they now have the upper hand with 
> the management because it "costs" them less.  And sure, you can talk all you 
> want to about faster development and better security blah blah blah, but a 
> manager isn't going to buy it because the price is too steep.
> 
> Matt
> 
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