Lets say you drive a ford and I give you a piston for a Chevy for free. Unless you happen to also have a Chevy with the engine that fits, I basically gave you a useless piston...but it was free... So to say this bundle is beneficial to all is a misstatement. They should offer other options. That would be the right thing to do. It's the same reason why many of us stopped using Dreamweaver. While DW is a great package, it has a lot of features that are completely useless to us as developers, while Home site or Eclipse was just right as far as an environment for developers as opposed to designers. If I don't use flash or flex, what is the value of Flash builder to me? (hint: $0) Considering that as far as CF is concerned, we are the marketing team since they can't seem to have the drive to market it themselves, making us happy is a good idea. We are the ones that suggest CF to clients and employers. We are the ones that push for upgrades. Adobe makes lots money from our actions.
Eric -----Original Message----- From: Charlie Griefer [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, March 22, 2010 5:08 PM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: ColdFusion Builder Released! On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 3:01 PM, Rick Faircloth <[email protected]>wrote: > And, again, Adobe is free to charge whatever they like, but it would be > nice to feel like Adobe wanted to help it's community thrive by > contributing > to its success without always charging so much to enable that success. But they're not "charging so much". They're effectively giving away an IDE (you can think of it as giving FlashBuilder to CF developers or giving CFBuilder to Flex developers). In doing so they're cross-marketing and stand to grow either the CF community or the Flex community or both, which could in turn help either or both of the communities thrive. I understand that this doesn't fit in well with what -you- need specifically or what -you- want specifically. That doesn't make it wrong. I think long-term this is the more effective strategy. Releasing CFBuilder for $100 to the existing developers would make the existing developers happy (kinda... I'm sure somebody would still complain). But exactly would that help its community "thrive"? -- Charlie Griefer http://charlie.griefer.com/ I have failed as much as I have succeeded. But I love my life. I love my wife. And I wish you my kind of success. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:332070 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
