In our particular case corporate pays or has been paying for the Oracle license/deal that covers the entire company's use and most of that is not for web applications. Then when someone wants to build a web based application it is up to them to front the bill for the application and whatever means it needs to use to connect to the company defined standard for databases. So currently the define standard is ColdFusion and Oracle for web apps although it is going to change any day(been hearing this for awhile) because Microsoft is offering SQL Server at next to nothing to them and for whatever reason they(corporate) wants to go away from ColdFusion. I forgot it was due to DataDirect though which I think is separate from Oracle so the cost makes more sense at least when looking at it that way. The people paying the bills though do not like seeing the drastic price difference between both versions of CF and in all honesty as far as they are concerned here if just one version was offered and cost what Enterprise costs then it would not be an issue. It is when they see that Pro price v. Enterprise, then and only then do they want to know why can't that cheaper one be used and then they start looking into alternatives(other languages, never alternative CF servers).
On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 4:13 PM, Matthew Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > They can get away with it because their (Oracle) thin client driver > sucks ;). The DataDirect version of the driver is far superior. It > could be argued, however, that a company that can put the funds out for > an "Enterprise" SQL server, it should be able to front funds for an > "Enterprise" web application server. I'm not saying that's my opinion, > merely what seems to be sentiment. > > > Matthew Williams > Geodesic GraFX > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:315631 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
