based clients -- this may not be a large base, but it is growing.
Nothing wrong with having more potential customers.
A slight disadvantage is that PHP, Perl, etc. come pre-installed on Mac
OS X. But BD has a very simple install that makes it easy to get up
and running with CFML.
Dick
On Aug 20, 2004, at 7:05 AM, Ken Ferguson wrote:
> Well it's partly the curiosity, partly a sense of adventure, but mostly
> I think it's the fame and the money. (stolen line from H2G2, but it
> seemed to fit so perfectly!)
>
> Really I just want to switch because, WHY NOT give it a shot. If I can
> employ the free version when the application doesn't need any more
> than
> that, then I can get people on smaller projects who wouldn't normally
> consider ColdFusion due to cost that they can go with CF by using BD.
> As
> far as I'm concerned, the more sites built in CFML the better. Whether
> they run on CFMX or BD is largely irrelevant to us as developers on
> the
> whole. The point is that some people pass on using CF in favor of PHP
> or
> ASP due to cost, so now that I have a chance to test it out, I'll be
> in
> a better position to advise people on how to use BD to develop a site
> in
> CFML without worrying about the expense of the application server. The
> CF dev community can only benefit from this, as all of those people
> who
> have used the cost argument to say that ASP is better have now just
> lost
> a large part of their argument.
>
> Also, like I said, I've had a few little issues with some of my
> functions in BD and I'm sending them over to the guys at NewAtlanta
> today, but I'm actually liking it quite a lot so far. Even the
> problems
> I've had have been pretty simple to fix.
>
> ��_____��
>
> From: Alexander Sherwood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2004 10:20 AM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: RE: BlueDragon cfinclude issues
>
> At 11:09 AM 8/19/2004, you wrote:
> >I didn't think it through very well before posting. I just got
> >frustrated and asked.
> >
> > So, in the end, I'm not sure if
> >I'm going to be switching over to BD at all.
>
> Why switch to begin with? Do you need functionality in BD that is not
> in
> CFMX, or is it the price of the license?
>
> --
> Alex
>
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