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From: "Ben Doom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CF-Community" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2007 2:56 PM
Subject: Re: CF8 Sticker Shock


> 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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