Regarding the relative costs of the "expensive" ColdFusion and the "free" other technologies, I have a statement from a colleague in another organisation, which I'll be posting separately. I told him about a site I'd just about finished in ColdFusion and he told me he was amazed. That I'd done my site in about 70 hours with another 40hours or so to finish it , and he had done a similar site in "Free" PHP - it had taken two of them (part time) two years to build.
Let's assume for the sake of argument that all people working on these sites are costing $50/hour either as paid contractors or as employees including on-costs. I built my site, using "expensive" ColdFusion for $3500 plus a cold fusion server at perhaps $1200 - total $4700. They built their site using "free" PHP for (say) two people at 600 hours each - that's $60,000!! But they got the server software for free. Saved a big bunch there by going with the 'free' one didn't they. .Cheers Mike Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia AFP Webworks http://afpwebworks.com .com,.net,.org domains from AUD$20/Year ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Special thanks to the CF Community Suite Gold Sponsor - CFHosting.net http://www.cfhosting.net Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:187307 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
