Jeremy,
Your rant produced a thought I hadn't had before. I wonder how competitive
ASP would be vs. CF if it were not free, but instead offered at roughly the
same price point?
I just finished up a post to a thread on an HWG list that someone started
by asking about free or low cost web/database solutions. There is a large
community out there that is really into "free" and/or open source software.
They sneer at companies that offer what they term "proprietary" solutions.
All other things being equal, I can't imagine that nearly as many people
would bother to learn and use ASP, if they had to pay for it.
I'm kind of surprised that Allaire hasn't pushed their own free options
more aggressively. It would be a serious coup, if they started offering
Studio for free. I have no idea what their sales figures look like, but it
would seem they make most of their money off of their enterprise class
offerings and support subscriptions. Studio for free would certainly kick
ASP's butt.
Regards,
--John
<ASP_RANT>
Microsoft is giving away ASP like they gave away
Internet Explorer. IE, ASP+ .NET
all of this is a part of Microsofts agenda to
push them as a premiere devleoper of Applicaton
servers provider tools and Applications Services
through Microsoft. I truly believe giving away ASP
does not hurt competition but if they make ASP+
a better tool and still give it away for
free they are STLL practicing monopolistic
tactics and I still truly believe even tho
this is seemingly counterproductive at first
that microsoft should be broken into at the
very least Applications Company and Operating System
Company.
I just think it is highly un-fair of MS to be
doing something like this.
</ASP_RANT>
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