Kwang Suh wrote: > 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.
I'd like to see the total cost break-down for a site that was so large it required 10 clustered servers. I doubt the bottom line would move perceptibly if you switched from CF to a free option. > > Also, no matter what way you cut it, CF Enterprise is quite expensive. > If you're a child at school, a new mountain bike costing $200 is expensive. If you're a student at college, a new car costing $5000 is expensive. If you're a medium sized shipping company, a new truck costing $100,000 is expensive. If you're a multinational shipping company, a new jet costing $10,000,000 is expensive. The numbers may not be spot on, but you get the general idea. Expensive is not an absolute term. It depends on the nature of what you're doing. A multinational shipping company is the only one I'd expect to require 10 clustered CF servers to run their app, and that app would probably be saving them an amount of money that is enormous when compared to the $60,000 one time cost of the CF licenses. > Also, only development licenses are free. QA, staging, and test licenses are > not with CF, unfortunately. Again, whether this is actually expensive to your company depends on the size of your company and what you want to use the app for. > > >>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 - New Atlanta http://www.newatlanta.com Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:187411 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=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
