> -----Original Message----- > From: Loathe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2008 7:24 AM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: Arrgghhhh! Adobe should loosen up the developer edition a > bit. > > Hell, cfexpress (was that it?) was a free version that was stripped of
Yup. It was a good idea.... but in practice it was a little TOO limited. Great for learning and understanding CF but I remember there were some pretty big holes. > some tags that Allaire had. It was how I learned CF back in the 4/4.5 > days, and had the opposite effect. Instead of simply costing them > sales, I'd say it expanded their developer base, and ended up > contributing to their increased sales and market share. Without that > free product I'd have still been writing Perl and probably gone to asp > eventually. Instead I got to see the ease of use of CF without having > to know all the advanced stuff that I take for granted now, and found > it to be something I wanted to learn more about. The developer's edition IS a good idea - it's the full product, no limitations except for the IP restriction. You can use it to learn, work or whatever. But it would be nice if there were still a production-level transition product like Express. > God I miss Allaire. Yeah... if nothing else I knew many of those guys personally. ;^) Jim Davis ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;192386516;25150098;k Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:257873 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
