Apparently not all of us make as much as you do Sean ;-) Eric
-----Original Message----- From: Sean Corfield [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2010 2:38 AM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: ColdFusion Builder Released! On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 11:47 AM, Kris Sisk <[email protected]> wrote: > $300 cheap for any software? What kind of Kool Aid have you been drinking? 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? :) > The issue is that we're already shelling out at least $1200 to Adobe for a product that has free products as its chief competition. It would have been wise, given that price tag versus the price tag of PHP (or even Railo) to give us a free, or at least inexpensive, IDE. Hey, I'm the CEO of Railo Technologies, Inc. - the US consulting arm of Railo - and I ponied up $299 of my own personal money on Monday night at 8:56p PST to buy ColdFusion Builder to use as my editor of choice for all my CFML projects (both Railo-based and otherwise). Why? Because I think ColdFusion Builder is the best CFML IDE available! Yeah, I'd hoped it would be $199 but when I saw it included Flash Builder 4 - which I may well use from time to time - I figured it was a true bargain and was only too happy to cough up my own dollars for something that will make me a more productive developer. I can't believe the complaining I've seen over the last 24 hours about $299... sheesh, folks probably could have earned $299 in the time spent complaining about it... and this from folks who happily spent nearly twice that on ColdFusion Studio... I just don't get it. -- Sean A Corfield -- (904) 302-SEAN Railo Technologies, Inc. -- http://getrailo.com/ An Architect's View -- http://corfield.org/ "If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive." -- Margaret Atwood ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:332168 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
