Let's say I have a website I want to cluster on 10 servers. With CF, that's 10 production licenses at whatever cost you can find CF at. With .NET, it's zero cost, so there can be some additional cost savings.
Also, no matter what way you cut it, CF Enterprise is quite expensive. Also, only development licenses are free. QA, staging, and test licenses are not with CF, unfortunately. >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 Silver Sponsor - CFDynamics http://www.cfdynamics.com Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:187397 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
