Sorry this is a bit off topic, but it's been bothering me...
<pseudo-rant> So I was talking to a friend from my church last weekend. He owns an automotive spring shop and is trying to get a website up (products, shopping cart etc..), but all he knows is HTML. His first problem in my opinion is that he is paying someone to hand-build hundreds of STATIC HTML pages which contain all of his available products. I just couldn't seem to convince him that he REALLY needed a database. But that's not what bothered me though. Before I even mentioned he should use CF, I told him that's what I code in, and he recognized it from searching the WEB (he's done a little homework). His first response was, "Oh, I looked at ColdFusion, but it was *way* too expensive." Well, all this guy really wants/needs is a small hosted site in a shared environment for not more than 15 bucks a month. No problem. So, how is it that people search the web and completely miss that fact? He actually thought he was going to have to pay thousands of dollars for ColdFusion server! I know we've had discussions about the cost vs price of CF, but that's not really what this is about. It just bugs me that when an uneducated (but smart) person looks on the web for the first time the impression they can get is "Don't use CF, it will cost you thousands of dollars". When people sign up for cheap shared hosting accounts, they don't assume they will need to purchase their operations system, database licenses, or any of that shmoo. I guess it just bugs me that it is easy for people to completely turn away from CF without ever looking at it just because no-one was there to explain it. I want to see CF succeed in the market, obviously. What can we do (not that we aren't already) to help spread correct info. </pseudo-rant> ~Brad ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:262218 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
