I agree wholeheartedly with Dave. In the scheme of software development as an industry, $300 is trivial. Look up the price for Rational Rose, TOAD or ERWin; they are in the hundreds to thousands. Look at the price of ColdFusion itself, which we often have to convince clients that it is worth purchasing for their businesses.
The whole point is, if it is interesting to you, use the trial version. if it is worth it to you, buy it. If it is not, then don't. For me: INTERESTING: Has features worth noting, worth evaluating, may provide significant benefit to me in my workflow. WORTH IT: Worth investing the money in the tool because it meets my personal development needs and enhances my workflow. The cost of the tool is recovered by efficiency that I gain. Arguing that the cost is too high, or that it could have been a better vehicle to attract more developers to CF is moot. There are alternatives to CFBuilder, some of which are actually free to use. It all boils down to what you perceive as being worth it. I will download it, I will try it, and compare it to CFEclipse and Homesite, which are the two tools I currently use (for reasons of client and vpn considerations). I won't begrudge the price if it is worth it to me. OS licencing costs more than CFBuilder does. Allen Souliere On 24-Mar-10, at 7:37 AM, Dave Watts wrote: > >> Too many people make the assumption that $300 is a trivial amount. >> While >> I am glad that many of you are much more prosperous than I am, >> please don't >> assume that it is a trivial amount for anyone else except yourself. > > It's not so much that $300 is a trivial amount, but rather that it's > well within the expected range of prices for the tools you buy as a > software developer, and it's at the low end of that range. Again, this > brings me back to the appropriate measure of value for development > tools - do they save you enough time to cover their cost? If buying > CFB will make you a faster and better developer, it'll probably pay > for itself in a week or two. If it doesn't, don't buy it! It's really > as simple as that. And you have a free trial period in which to find > out. > > Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software > http://www.figleaf.com/ > http://training.figleaf.com/ > > Fig Leaf Software is a Veteran-Owned Small Business (VOSB) on > GSA Schedule, and provides the highest caliber vendor-authorized > instruction at our training centers, online, or onsite. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:332189 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
