On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 7:54 PM, Eric Nicholas Sweeney wrote: > Ray - Don't forget small business. ;) > > Some of us are 1 man shops who "try" to bring on extra manpower on a project > by project basis. And while we would like to try Flashbuilder or CFBuilder - > $300 can be a bit of tough justification. (What should the software budget > for a one man operation really be?)
A 1 man shop working with a known customer base could get by with zero commercial software. A 1 man shop who freelances from client to client needs about $4K initially and then $1K per year to keep it updated: - Flash Builder Pro (includes CF Builder) - Enterprise Architect; - CS4; - small tools (< $100) like Beyond Compare, WinZip etc; - MS Office I presume your Operating System will be bundled with your laptop. You could get by with a lot less if you are not in the business of arriving at an unknown client at 9 AM and delivering at 5 PM the same day. But, speaking as somebody who frequently hires people and gets hired to add extra manpower on a job, this is the minimum that you are expected to be compatible with. If you have a 1 day job somewhere you just can not afford the time to write custom buildfiles instead of using the FlexBuilder project files the client has for you. You can not afford to get the formatting messed up because OpenOffice is slightly different from MS Office. You can no afford to loose layer information in the Gimp when you don't have Photoshop. You can not afford to have to rewrite something because CFEclipse is not compatible with the extensions for CF Builder. Jochem -- Jochem van Dieten http://jochem.vandieten.net/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:332206 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
