Rick, I'm still curious to know what a $299 IDE would constitute in your opinion. This entire thread has been about price and price alone, with a single mention of feature or worth.
For the record (and I hope I don't get in trouble to for this in print), the projected revenue of ColdFusion Builder is 1/30th that of ColdFusion Server, yet we devoted nearly 40% of our resources to build it... you tell me if that math sounds like "making as high a return as possible with every product". You've got the wrong opinion about Adobe, the ColdFusion team and myself. It's easy to paint Adobe as some big evil corporate entity but I speak for myself and the CF team when I say our number one goal is to empower our customers to create. -Adam On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 11:50 AM, Rick Faircloth <[email protected]>wrote: > > Realize, that "I" haven't stated that the shareholders are greedy...that's > simply the reason (in different terms) that others have offered as an > explanation for the high price of CFB. > > If I knew for a fact that they were making a reasonable profit at $299, > I'd have no complaint...you've got to recoup investment and *some* profit. > > But others in this discussion have suggested that it's the shareholders who > insist on making as high a return as possible with every product. I don't > know that for a fact, so I wouldn't so it was so. > > And as to the reasoning that Adobe is simply trying to "sweeten the deal" > by providing a copy of CFB to the Flash Builder community for $50 is quite > insulting to those of us who are not Flash Builder users. Adobe, in that > case, > would simply be charging a premium to those of us who don't use Flash > Builder > to subsidize what amount to almost a giveaway to the Flash Builder > community. > > Yes, I feel aggravated by that and somewhat indignant, if the above is > true. > I'd think the first community Adobe would want to offer a substantial > discount > for CFB would those who own CF Server. (And realize, that wouldn't benefit > me, > since I use a VPS offered by a hosting company and no longer own a CF > server > beyond 4.2) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:332113 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
