A 1 year sub to Zend Studio with upgrades and support, a PHP IDE which looks like a fairly equitable product in terms of functionality, sells for $399.
I haven't used it, so cannot comment on it's quality, and admittedly it does appear to be a more mature product. But still. FWIW my opinion is that $99 would be too low. $299 isn't even a half days work, so if builder make me more productive it's a no brainer. Will it save me more than 4 hours time over it's lifetime? IMO it will. Just my 2p worth Will -----Original Message----- From: Rick Faircloth [mailto:r...@whitestonemedia.com] Sent: 23 March 2010 15:22 To: cf-talk Subject: RE: ColdFusion Builder Released! > FlashBuilder > 4 (Standard Edition) with CFBuilder costs $299, and FlashBuilder 4 > (Standard Edition) without CFBuilder costs $249. I think this is evidence supporting my supposition that Adobe has priced this product too high...$50, I think, would be low, $99 about right, but getting it, basically, for $50 if I agree to buy FlashBuilder is an indicator of what Adobe feels it's true value is, perhaps. If they want to sell more licenses, give the IDE away and compete more aggressively with those that use free tools and servers all the time. Their shareholder's greed (which has been offered as the reason for the high price of CFB several times) to make money at *every* turn will be their downfall in the end. We now have free CF servers (which I'd be using if I couldn't get a great VPS at a reasonable price)and free CF Coding tools which are, for me at least, on par with CFB for the functionality I use. When others start investing serious time and effort, if not money, into developing completing products that are offered for free to compete against a company's offerings, that's an indication to me there's a problem with the company and what's it turning out. I just can't figure out whether this bundling deal is an effort to get more copies of FB or CB out the door. -----Original Message----- From: Eric Cobb [mailto:cft...@ecartech.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2010 9:57 AM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: ColdFusion Builder Released! Charlie Griefer wrote: "Bundling it with FlashBuilder may be their way of trying to increase the uptake of the language as a whole and thus ultimately sell more server licenses. By doing this, they're potentially introducing CF to PHP developers, Java developers, etc." I have to say that I don't agree with that last statement. FlashBuilder 4 (Standard Edition) with CFBuilder costs $299, and FlashBuilder 4 (Standard Edition) without CFBuilder costs $249. So for an existing PHP/Flex developer who has no use for CF, do you think they're going to pay $299 to get an extra IDE for a language they don't use, or spend $50 less and just get the IDE they need? thanks, eric cobb ecar technologies, llc http://www.cfgears.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:332116 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
