On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 14:14:40 -0500, Dave Watts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Again, your assumption is that everyone's using Windows. If that's not the > case, then you need to factor in the cost of Windows licenses as well as > potential server management costs. In addition, you might be able to scale > up better with a non-Windows solution (which generally limits you to scaling > out rather than up).
Compare, for example, the cost of an 8-CPU Oracle license for web access with the cost of CF Enterprise on a cluster of six 8-CPU servers. The Oracle license is way more expensive. Consider the costs of creating a fully redundant Oracle master/slave cluster to serve a website. If you're in that sort of business arena, CF isn't expensive at all. WebSphere, WebLogic, Oracle AS et al are all more expensive than CF Enterprise. The integration software packages to integrate those to ERP and CRM systems are $100k per server. > Finally, the cost of software is typically a small fraction of overall > application deployment and maintenance costs anyway. If you save a little > bit per programming man-hour, you'll easily pay for whatever you license > over a short time. Exactly. The sorts of companies who don't blink at the cost of systems like I just described are running projects that have $5-10m budgets and most of it is manpower. -- Sean A Corfield -- http://www.corfield.org/ Team Fusebox -- http://www.fusebox.org/ Breeze Me! -- http://www.corfield.org/breezeme "If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive." -- Margaret Atwood ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Special thanks to the CF Community Suite Silver Sponsor - RUWebby http://www.ruwebby.com Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:187437 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
