I think your information is slightly wrong. Upgrading enterprise doesn't cost 8000 a time - more like 3750. Still a lot of money depending on your situation, but much more affordable.
But do you need the enterprise functionality? CF Standard is available as an upgrade for 649. How quickly will you make back that spend in built in features, speed of development etc.? We don't have an Enterprise license because we have never needed one. If we do, then we'll deal with that. But standard has a hack of a lot of functionality out of the box. -----Original Message----- From: David Long [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 06 October 2009 19:48 To: cf-talk Subject: RE: CF 9 and CF Builder Beta 2 released There are currently three of us hosting a total of about 120 sites that use CF5. (We have sites that don't use CF and I don't actually administer the CF server except to add ODBC data sources and an occasional scheduled task.) It just isn't practical for us to spend $8,000 every other year on a new version of CF. Should we find it necessary to use new tech to satisfy our clients, our only affordable option will be php. The thought of having to learn new code makes me grumpy, hence the complaint. Dave -----Original Message----- From: Ian Skinner [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, October 06, 2009 1:16 PM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: CF 9 and CF Builder Beta 2 released David Long wrote: > It's my fault. I started it with a sarcastic and inappropriate metaphor and > Dave (the other Dave) responded in kind. I deserved it. > > However, that doesn't change my ire at the exclusionist rates Adobe is > asking for their too-frequent upgrades. It gives the impression they are > trying to eliminate those of us who work independently on our own nickel. > I'm not a troll, just a low-end user expressing my opinion. > > Please accept my apology for the unnecessary slur about "silver spoons." > > I'll shut up now. > > Dave But you don't have to pay for x.1 upgrades if you have bought the X version? If you are not counting the .1 upgrades, and upgrade cycle of approximately 3 years does not seem that frequent, at least for me. I also presume you are hosting your own public web server, because everybody knows that the developer versions are free for development, so if you don't host the server, there is nothing that needs to be paid. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:326974 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
