Yo Don! A cool thing about open source is that you can pay random coder(s) to do what you need. Doesn't have to be the creators-- tho they're obviously going to be the best.
If you are running a business on the Railo software and need a rapid and guaranteed response, a support contract is probably not a bad idea at all. Railo support sounds amazing. I've heard nothing but praise. :DeN -- Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist. Thomas Carlyle On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 8:53 PM, Don L<[email protected]> wrote: > > Particularly related to ColdFusion. I understand open source software is not > free software. So, to get "everything" working one has to pay something if > he/she does not have the time or expertise to dig everything... and that > seems fair, but if someone is asking about thousand or thousands of dollars > upfront, I don't think that's a productive way of moving forward... Also, > you may hear something like this, this key person is on vacation and will be > back in like two weeks or you need patience, in the business world, every day > counts (you snooze you lose). This ranting is for the benefit of whose who > are considering switch from Adobe ColdFusion to other options. I'm not > suggesting not to make the switch but think twice or better talk to the key > person of the product you intend to switch to and possibly strike a deal or > at least obtain his/her support first otherwise your conversion/switch would > be at the mercy of others. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:324716 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
