> about as nimble as a mastodon in a tar pit

That cracked me up!  Good one!


Thanks,

Eric Cobb
ECAR Technologies, LLC
http://www.ecartech.com
http://www.cfgears.com


On 1/26/2011 9:02 AM, Gerald Guido wrote:
>>> Who is being flippant? It's a fact of life that some developer tools
> cost money.
>
>
> Going out on a limb here....
>
> It is all relative. Good tools cost do cost good money. But.... For some
> here, $300 is chump change. For others, even the gainfully employed, that
> could mean making a car or mortgage payment, or not. Times are tough. I
> would wager that some of the folks here vocal about not complaing about it
> not being expensive have incomes in excess of six figures, or close to it.
> For those people it is *not* expensive, but for independents or 9-5ers that
> are struggling to put their kids though college  $300 *is* a good chunk of
> change.
>
> I like CFB but it is a dog @ work. Our intranet has thousands of cfm's and
> cfc's (it handles *all* of our internal business proccesses) and CFB is
> about as nimble as a mastodon in a tar pit. So is it worth $300 in this
> instance? Arguably not.
>
> Flame on Garth!
>
> G!
>
> On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 9:39 AM, Raymond Camden<rcam...@gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>> Who is being flippant? It's a fact of life that some developer tools
>> cost money. That isn't unusual, it is a fact of life. I was going to
>> say just us developers, but I'm sure in most industries there are
>> tools you end up having to pay for to help you get your job done.
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 8:09 AM, Eric Roberts
>> <ow...@threeravensconsulting.com>  wrote:
>>> I think we need to move where you guys live...if you can be so flippant
>>> about $300, pay must be pretty awesome there...
>>>
>>> What I wish they would do is offer a version without flash for less.  I
>>> don't ever do flash, so bundling it isn't much of a perk to me.
>>>
>>> Eri
>>
> 

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