On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 10:35 AM, Rick Faircloth wrote: ... > represent? And I wonder how long it took Mark Drew to write CFEclipse > as a "part-time" project apart from his day job? One part-time coder > versus 40% of Adobe's "resources". Adobe took what...a year and a half > to get CFBuilder created as a plug-in, with Eclipse already existing as > a foundation and CFEclipse as a reference model? (Maybe the coders took > longer than they should)
I think Rob Rohan wrote the first version of CFE (I could totally be wrong, apologies if so), and there have been several contributors since then. FWIW, ohloh thinks it cost around $5,480,570 to develop CFE and around 100 person years. And that's with at least a few (initial!) years of history missing. I don't think those numbers really mean much, but it's interesting, anyways. Since Adobe went with Aptana, they had less to write, but it's still a monumental task. Also FWIW, I don't know that we've seen /what/ Adobe wants for CFB, really. I'm guessing that the bundle deal is part of them trying to find a price-point, perhaps. Seems like people would be willing to pay about $100-$150 for a stand-alone of the current incarnation... :DeN -- No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man. Heracl ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:332119 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
