Not sure about everywhere else but here in Australia the purchase price for
Allaire products (CF Server, CF Studio, Spectra, etc) went up big time
around the start of this year. Probably more now with our newly introduced
GST tax (software +10%).
You need to ask yourself, after outlaying often large amounts of money for
fully licensed products (OS and support tools included), can I charge ????
for a product. If the solution suits the clients expectations and they are
prepared to pay for it - yes. More often than not a CF based solution will
be more than they imagined possible, and in a faster turnaround (time) than,
say, an ASP solution.
I've done some stuff with CF I never thought possible. As an example - a
client believed that it was "too complicated" for a user to select a
destination (from a dropdown), then "browse" for the MS Word document and
click "upload". The CF solution enabled me to track the name of the document
(from its "title"), upload it to the server, be previewable in both MS Word
and HTML formats on the fly, and "approved" (converted to HTML) to appear on
the live site, an indexed, with a mouse click. Check it out at
http://tradewatch.dfat.gov.au.
My thoughts are you get what you pay for. As CF is not a "free" solution it
pays to put in the extra effort. We all know CF Studio is still buggy but
it's getting there.
Many of us probably paid for Allaire's Forum product (we paid about
AUD$750.00) only to learn 4 weeks later that it was made an open source
product - ouch - hope our clients don't ever learn about that. The fact that
better/more user friendly products built in CF are available (cheaper too).
Peter Tilbrook
ACT ColdFusion Users Group - http://203.37.24.198
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