Well if your little devices are using web apps why would you need a licence per device? Do these devices not connect to a web server that is serving up these apps? Wouldn't you only need a licence for that server?
Perhaps I missed something. Oh ya...and there are cheap versions (Standard)...and as Matt L. said....BlueDragon Cheers Bryan Stevenson B.Comm. VP & Director of E-Commerce Development Electric Edge Systems Group Inc. t. 250.920.8830 e. [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------- Macromedia Associate Partner www.macromedia.com --------------------------------------------------------- Vancouver Island ColdFusion Users Group Founder & Director www.cfug-vancouverisland.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Wilker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2003 12:38 PM Subject: RE: DWMX 2004 - Whats new for us? > Exactly Matt, > > Whenever the topic of which app server to go to price has almost always been > what kills CF in my experience. When money is no option it's fine, but money > is more and more becoming the object. > > It's one thing to say CF is still cheaper than BEA or whatever on a per CPU > type of deal, but the small shop that has a single CPU webserver, doesn't > really car that they are saving money compared to the BEA licenses they're > not interested in. > > The one thing (I've said it before) that I'd love to see would be some sort > of low cost version of CF (no verity, maybe less DB support, maybe no > sandboxes and such) that can be used on devices that use a web app. My > company sells such devices and I'd love it if all of them ran CF apps, but > 1k - 5k per unit is way too much for software. (Our units also only have one > CPU) > > I wish I could propose a model that lets MACR charge less or nothing for MM > but I know they need to make money. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Matt Blatchley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2003 12:06 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: RE: DWMX 2004 - Whats new for us? > > > I would think one reason is the cost of the CFServer. Every person I've > talked to that is outside of the CF development world tells me the reason > they never got into ColdFusion or don't get into it is because of the cost. > Although I really enjoy CF, PHP and MySQL are basically free. It's very > difficult to convince someone to switch from paying nothing to having to > dump thousand into just owning the license. Then having to pay for the pipe > and servers on top of the CFlicense costs. Although we are all aware of the > numerous ways to cut the costs like leasing the license, it still deters > people for making the jump. Just my experience when I work with ASP, PHP, > and JSP folks. The competition is too much for MM when the competitors > products are free, even with the capability issues that the others don't > offer. > > My2cents > > -----Original Message----- > From: Matt Liotta [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2003 1:51 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: DWMX 2004 - Whats new for us? > > > Sure, just take a look at MM's SEC filings. They detail what product lines > produced what revenues. Generally speaking, the documents lump all > server-side software sales together, so one could make the argument that it > is JRun that is actually shrinking and CF. However, having participated in > the MM earnings conference calls, they tend to break down the sales figures > better orally. > > For example, from their 10-K filling... > > Our Software Tools products had net revenues of $270.1 million in fiscal > year 2003, as compared to $242.5 million in fiscal year 2002. This increase > was primarily due to the launch of new Software Tools products and new > versions of existing Software Tools products, including our MX family of > products and Macromedia Contribute. Macromedia Studio MX, which was launched > in the first quarter of fiscal year 2003, represented approximately 31% of > our net revenues in the current fiscal year. While sales of Macromedia > Studio MX did result in a decrease in sales of our stand-alone products that > are included in our Studio MX bundle, aggregate sales from all of our MX > products increased by 13% in fiscal year 2003 as compared to fiscal year > 2002. This increase was partially offset by a decline in net revenues from > our Server Software products, primarily Macromedia ColdFusion MX. Server > Software product revenues decreased to $53.0 million in fiscal year 2003, as > compared to $60.1 million in fiscal year 2002. This decrease was primarily > due to continued pricing pressures resulting from a very competitive market > environment, partially offset by releases of new versions of existing > products during the current fiscal year. > > -Matt > > On Thursday, August 28, 2003, at 02:38 PM, Tyler Silcox wrote: > > > Matt wrote: The market for ASP and PHP is growing, while the CF market > > is shrinking. > > > > Do you have any evidence of this, or is it a personal > > observation/opinion? (I'm not challenging you, I just have a > > professional curiosity...) > > > > Tyler > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Matt Liotta [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2003 1:48 PM > > To: CF-Talk > > Subject: Re: DWMX 2004 - Whats new for us? > > > >> Granted, I pretty much stopped using DW when MX rolled out, but lots > >> of people love it. You can't expect MM to stop schmoozing it's > >> pre-existing customer base and ONLY focus on CF. Seriously now, you > >> don't want all those ASP and PHP folks spending their money somewhere > >> else - the beauty of it is that all of those people who buy DW and > >> use it to code PHP and ASP are contributing to the future of MM and > >> CF with their funds. > >> > > I disagree with the above statement. The market for ASP and PHP is > > growing, while the CF market is shrinking. Certainly, there is reason > > right now for > > Macromedia to support ASP, PHP, and CF, but at what point does the > > size of > > each respective market force MM to focus DW on only the largest > > markets, > > namely ASP and PHP? > > > > Matt Liotta > > President & CEO > > Montara Software, Inc. > > http://www.MontaraSoftware.com > > (888) 408-0900 x901 > > > > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=t:4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. http://www.cfhosting.com
