Still, sometimes it's more economically efficient to turn customers away than it is to offer something you won't be able to support as well. Sometimes it's very well worth it to concentrate on your areas of efficiency. If 10 potential customers approach me to build them an ecommerce app tomorrow, I'll have to turn several of them away because they'll want PHP or ASP. I'm sure I could deliver what they want in those languages, but it's not what I do and it's not what I want to do. It's not my area of maximum efficiency. It's therefore more prudent for me to turn away the non CF customers than to offer a choice of languages. Same thing as offering only Windows or only Linux...
A lot of businesses have failed for trying to do things outside of their areas of efficiency--trying to do more than what they can do best. --Ferg Munson, Jacob wrote: >>Never, we don't do linux as we are a windows house. >>The majority of people use windows anyway, especially for CF. >> >> > >I'll grant that most CF users use Windows, and even that most people use >Windows. But in web servers it is a slim margin. Netcraft reports that >~71% of web servers run apache: >http://survey.netcraft.com/Reports/200511/byserver/index.html >I found an article that stated that 50% of Apache is on Linux: >http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reports/6065/1/ >IIS has ~20% of the web server market share (Netcraft). If you do the >math, putting the Apache Windows installs together with the IIS >installs, it adds up to 55% of the web servers in total. So, somewhere >between 40-45% of the web is not on Windows (who knows what OS all the >'other' web servers are on?). > >The majority of the web is on Windows, but choosing to be a "windows >house", you are cutting out 40-45% of your potential market. If you had >10 customers come up to you tomorrow and ask for hosting, you'd have to >turn away 4 or 5 of them because you don't offer Linux. From my >experience, most of the hosts out there give their customers an option >between Windows or Linux. Again, I realize that the large majority of CF >sites are on Windows, so if you are focusing on CF hosting, then Windows >is a good bet. :) > >----------------- > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Logware (www.logware.us): a new and convenient web-based time tracking application. Start tracking and documenting hours spent on a project or with a client with Logware today. Try it for free with a 15 day trial account. http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=67 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:224804 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
