I am smoking a tailored made if you must know. But let's put this into perspective for a minute.
What have Adobe done, they have enhanced the RDS a bit more to talk to the new features of ColdFusion 9 and provide a editor with colouring and have included a way to hook some basic extension functionality to the editor/IDE. That's the crunch of it, that isn't a great deal of work. The rest of the power is actually coming from Eclipse and Aptana, which Adobe didn't write. Now if Adobe had written Eclipse and provided all this then maybe I would consider it worthy of a $299.00 (USD) price tag. So far the ones you have compared it too, DW and Studio (Studio was actually given away free BTW with ColdFusion as well) and if you want to do a fair comparison of work then compare the entire amount of work gone into the entire Application/s. Not everybody will need or use the RDS features, maybe over time who knows. But from a personal level, I would be happy to move back to cfeclipse inside a 64bit Eclipse, running Mylyn and Subversive as they give me the same productivy. I would miss the line debugger, but as it has no real different functionality or bug fixes in comparison to the ColdFusion 8 Eclipse plugin I would be happy to continue to use that. Having said all that on a comparison I fail to see where it is given tru value for money, when there are better, faster free alternatives? -----Original Message----- From: Sean Corfield [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, 24 March 2010 6:38 PM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: ColdFusion Builder Released! Since folks have repeatedly referred to Dreamweaver as $300 let me correct them and point out DW is $399. Let me also remind folks that people seemed perfectly happy to pay $499 for ColdFusion Studio back in the day. So here's a CFML editor that does a helluva lot more than ColdFusion Studio and is much more code-centric than Dreamweaver (the biggest complaints I hear from CFers about DW) and now people are complaining that this much more powerful CFML editor is "too expensive" when it costs less than both the apparently beloved ColdFusion Studio and Dreamweaver (which had HomeSite+ - the re-badged CFS product - bundled with it for a while)?? Might I ask, WTF are you people smoking? :) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:332161 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
