> I honestly believe that if companies like the yahoo and > google, who use mySql to run portions of their websites, > figure to prove that a whopping $20,000 licence for MS > or Oracle just is not worth it.
Things just aren't as simple as this. Companies like these would pay far more than $20K for either SQL Server or Oracle, and they're large enough that they have incredible economies of scale when they implement and maintain open source solutions. It's my understanding that Google, for example, maintains a customized version of CentOS, a Linux distribution, for use with their search servers. If you have enough identical servers, that's a sensible value proposition, but most of us don't come close to that. > On the same token, CF is going to have to either lower > it's price, or suffer from people switching to other less > expensive tochnologies. The value proposition of CF is that it pays for itself with shorter development and maintenance times. If that's not true for you, you shouldn't buy it no matter what the price is. If it is true for you, the price is irrelevant. As enterprise products go, CF is dirt cheap. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ Fig Leaf Software provides the highest caliber vendor-authorized instruction at our training centers in Washington DC, Atlanta, Chicago, Baltimore, Northern Virginia, or on-site at your location. Visit http://training.figleaf.com/ for more information! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:258499 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
