If they are making good money on it, and it's mostly from the enterprise sector, wouldn't it make sense to let the educational institutions have it for free? This way enterprise would have a better pool of talent, and are more likely to get CF/stick with CF in the coming years.
Look everyone has to make sacrifices in order to be competitive. MS released SQL Express in response to MYSQL and PostgreSQL. Oracle released Oracle Lite. Even though this might've caused a hit for their sales of SQL Server standard and workgroup, they are probably getting more sales for SQL Server Enterprise, and less people moving to free platforms. Russ > -----Original Message----- > From: Josh Nathanson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 12:33 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: ColdFusion: Some People Just Don't Know Any Better > > > >Well it's a bit hard for CF, because of the pricing model. CF is > priced > > >per > >>Server, meanwhile all the other technologies you mention can be hosted > for > >>(relatively) free. .NET makes it up by selling more Windows Server > >>licenses, and PHP and RoR are free. > > All the evidence we can gather points to the fact that Allaire, Macromedia > and now Adobe are profitable with the ColdFusion pricing model exactly as > it > stands. So, there's very little motivation to address their marketing > approach. If they were losing money on ColdFusion, I think you'd see them > either doing more marketing, or dropping the product line entirely. > > -- Josh > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:298447 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
