It really depends upon the price, if it's not to expensive, priced similar
to a CAL for Win2k or thereabouts, this wont be a problem.
However if the price goes higher than a couple hundred dollars per site it
no longer is profitable to charge somone a competitive price for a simple CF
shoppingcart or message forum on a shared server.
What is the definition of a ColdFusion site? Any site that uses CF? What if
they have a simple cfmail program and that's it?
If the price becomes prohibitive, it makes sense to check out php or asp+.
If the price is too high, we will probably be sticking with 4.5 on all of
our servers, and not doing a wholesale upgrade like we were planning.
and I was just starting to like Macromedia...
jon
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Col�n" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2001 1:39 PM
Subject: New CF5 Partner Hosting License
> Allaire's Partners just received an email announcing ColdFusion Server 5
Hosting Service Provider Edition, which
> "consists of a new End-User License for commercial hosting service
providers."
>
> The gist of it is that Hosting Providers will now be charged extra for the
privilege of running multiple CF sites
> on a shared server. As far as I can tell, all the new features of CF5
will be in the Enterprise edition, so the
> only difference between Enterprise and Hosting is that the latter will
cost more. Some value.
>
> I sent Allaire an email registering my strong disapproval of this new
hosting partner penalty fee, pointing out
> that "GoTech is already subjected to marketplace pressures due to the free
nature of Microsoft's Active Server Page
> (ASP) technology, and Allaire/Macromedia's continual ratcheting up of
ColdFusion's price is potentially
> debilitating to our efforts to deploy your product." Perhaps they see
their only competition in the
> BEA/WebLogic/IBM/Oracle application server space. This may be the case
for Enterprise, but there's no way this is
> the case with hosting providers. We're competing in the trenches with
ASP, which is free on NT/2000, and at some
> point the benefits of the CF environment will be outweighed by its cost....
>
> Maybe I'm just jumping to conclusions, and this is actually (somehow) a
benfit to hosting partners. Thoughts?
>
>
>
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