I have to agree that I have never had issues selling the benefits of CF and ROI, it's actually an easy sell.
I just purely don't understand the price hike, in a market where software is becoming less expensive and also free, a 25% increase is unjustified unless there is some new feature that they have included that requires them to licence in third party products. Why this has added a Nail to the Coffin is because they have hurt the enterprise market, if I want to develop a large enterprise scale application, which requires multiple servers etc, etc. ColdFusion is simply too expensive and I will use something else. Instead of buying Enterprise I will now (have already) buy Standard. PS: If someone would like to explain to me the price difference between download and boxed, i'd love to hear that story also. In Australia here an Enterprise box is only $1,104, it must be really shiny. Regards Dale Fraser http://dalefraser.blogspot.com -----Original Message----- From: Rey Bango [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 31 July 2007 4:46 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Adobe Nails ColdFusion Cofin I completely disagree with this statement Andy. Part of being a consultant is selling your solution and if a person can't effectively do that, then they shouldn't be in the consulting business at all. What I've seen over the time I've been involved with ColdFusion is less people that are interested or willing to sell a solution as opposed to making their $30-50/hr as a contractor. If thats what person wants to do, then they might be better of choosing a tool like PHP or .Net. But in my experience, selling customers on ColdFusion, even when I've had to explain the ROI, has not been an issue. I really believe people underestimate the intelligence of prospects and thats just not good business. Rey... Andy Matthews wrote: > Rick... > > You make compelling arguments. But IMO, if you have to explain the ROI to > someone, then you've already lost the battle.... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:284871 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
