On 8/1/07, Dinner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Quite different from paying license fees tho, isn't that? In fact, that's > kind of like what I'm talking about. > On 8/1/07, James Holmes wrote: > > Well, sort of. Enterprises often use SLES, RHEL; versions of Linux > > that are not free.
I don't remember pricing up RHEL under maintenance but here's something I did look at: JBoss support / maintenance can very quickly reach $100k / year for even a moderate server farm (for the app server, Hibernate, clustering etc - all of which JBoss prices separately). Comparable with annual support for WebLogic (or WebSphere no doubt - but I only did a direct comparison of JBoss and WebLogic). The difference in costs between WebLogic and JBoss came down the initial license fee (about $400k for the setup I was evaluating). ColdFusion 8 Enterprise would be $120k in the context of that (a 32 CPU farm) which actually makes CF8 "cheap" compared to JBoss (assuming you actually pay the support fees) and very cheap compared to WebLogic. Just a price point for a relatively small "enterprise" project. -- Sean A Corfield -- (904) 302-SEAN An Architect's View -- http://corfield.org/ "If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive." -- Margaret Atwood ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Get involved in the latest ColdFusion discussions, product development sharing, and articles on the Adobe Labs wiki. http://labs/adobe.com/wiki/index.php/ColdFusion_8 Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:285125 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
