And you've got 60 days at no cost (other than your own time) to decide if it is indeed worth the $299 (£171+vat in the UK).
Andy On 23 March 2010 16:53, Will Swain <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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:[email protected]] > 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:[email protected]] > 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:332121 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
