On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 7:21 PM, Charlie Griefer <[email protected]>wrote:
> > > People seem to keep coming back to, "Adobe needs to take care of us to grow > the community". I don't get that. If they take care of us they keep the > community content, but it doesn't grow. We're still going to push CF to > clients and employers. OK Plain and simple... Why ColdFusion builder should be FR$$! And these clients in return purchase ColdFusion. We are their Marketing in this department. It's in Adobe's best interest to allow ColdFusion Developers access to tools that assist with development on their platform, because it actually costs money to install on the server. Look at Flex, Flash, ActionScript.... These platforms or whatever are available on X amount of computers around the world, at no additional cost to the client or the developer. Two totally different business models. Look at how Macromedia did it... ColdFusion Report Builder is FREE! Totally separate product that can be used in conjunction with one of products you have to pay to install on a device... ColdFusion Yes, you should pay for anything that needs to interact with their FREE scripting languages, but not the paid for ones! Every ColdFusion license should come with 1 Builder License. Separate license that can be given out as promotional value to a new developer who is interested in CFML. They in return, start using it, love it, and tell their clients to install it on their server. $$$ They don't need to do that with their other languages, it's a given so the fact that you need to purchase a development tool there is a given. ColdFusion, not so much so. > You might stop doing so because you're upset about > the fact that the CFBuilder pricing isn't catered to your needs... a > handful > of others might as well. But I'd venture to guess that it won't be a > statistically significant amount of people. CF server is the product we > use > and love. No, I totally love CFML. Adobe lucked out when they bought Macromedia! > A number of us will shell out the $300 for CFBuilder -and- > FlashBuilder. A number of us will continue to use CFEclipse or TextMate or > Coda or BBEdit or... > > That's misleading. It's $600 ish as you need to purchase FlashBuilder Premium, I don't have Flex Builder currently. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:332079 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
