> I need some guidance from someone that's been down this road > before. I don't want us to switch technologies just beacuse > it's what the agencies use. Why aren't there more agencies > using CF?
If you're an "agency", you want to maximize labor costs (to the extent that you can still win contracts) and minimize asset costs, because asset costs don't make you any money unless you're a reseller. The agency would rather have a $100k contract that purely involves labor, than a $100k contract that is 80% labor costs and 20% infrastructure costs. For that matter, they'd rather have an $80k contract that doesn't involve infrastructure costs, than a >$80 contract that does. Their interests are obviously not aligned with yours. You need to be able to make the argument that you're going to have to maintain the systems these agencies build, and so they need to work with your platform. Lots of companies do this, whether they use CF or not. For example, many organizations have standardized on a specific platform, and any web applications have to fit in this platform. They do this not because one platform is obviously superior to another (although ideally they've chosen the best platform for their use) but because they need to simplify maintenance, and managing one platform is easier than managing multiple platforms. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ Fig Leaf Software provides the highest caliber vendor-authorized instruction at our training centers in Washington DC, Atlanta, Chicago, Baltimore, Northern Virginia, or on-site at your location. Visit http://training.figleaf.com/ for more information! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;203748912;27390454;j Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:308468 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
