>As a developer working 40 hours a week at a certain "hourly" rate... >if I'm even 10% more productive working on Coldfusion versus another >environment, that alone makes the COST of Coldfusion worthwhile. >Let's say the cost of my employment, including benefits, is about $50/hour. >The 10% productivity increase would amount to 208 hours, or an additional >$10,000 in work completed in a typical 2080 hour work year. > >Assuming the life of a Coldfusion 8 license is only 2 years and you're not >buying a subscription... that's over $20,000 in savings.. just by using >Coldfusion because you can be more productive on it.
Small point to bear in mind here, which always pops into my head when I hear this argument. Let's say I am on $50/hr like you say, therefore for myself to pay for CF8 Ent, I'm looking at working at least 150 hours before it's paid for. OK, I may be 10% more productive than PHP, but if I were using CF then I would only save 208 hours per year over PHP (150 are spent paying for the license as well). So, at the end of my year, I'm 58 profit hours up. i.e $2900. If I had more than one server (say one dev, one test), I'd be out of pocket to the tune of $4600. It's not such a massive amount after all. Neil ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade to ColdFusion 8 and integrate with Adobe Flex http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJP Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:284870 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
