"Macromedia might not make a lot from direct sales but I think that the
long-term profitability of the company has to be built on small developers."
I agree, if you look at it, who champions CF more loudly than the smaller
developers? And smaller firms. The large firms have developers in several
areas so cutting back CF probably wouldn't have a dramatic impact.
>From what I can tell, hopefully this doesn't offend anyone, but we're all
representing smaller organizations. Except maybe the guys from figleaf, and
a few others, that have name recognition for me. The rest of us, as
discussed a few days ago on community, are freelancers or members of very
small firms.
I think MM would be greatly impacted if a significant enough percentage of
us had to stop representing CF.
J.
John Wilker
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-----Original Message-----
From: Zac [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, April 27, 2001 12:03 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: New CF5 Partner Hosting License
Len Conrad wrote:
>> And where would that leave smaller developers?
> If the "smaller" developers aren�t worth their cost of sales, then, yes
.....
As has been mentioned before, I don't think that most companies factor in
the value of small developers into their cost benefit analysis
>> Out in the cold
> .... and you don�t make significant money selling CF software, but from
your
> CF apps and support contract revenue, none of which goes back to MM.
Or does it? No-one has, to my knowledge, spent any time examining the issue
of how much a company makes (long term) from the support they give to small
developers.
Macromedia might not make a lot from direct sales but I think that the
long-term profitability of the company has to be built on small developers.
> Let�s not get emotional about it, it�s the brutal face of
> business.
Well that�s certainly a logical approach but you really can't expect people
to be anything other than emotional when there is a perceived direct threat
to their ability to make a living.
Or to the investment they have made in CF. I've just finished spending 3
months writing a CMS framework. I certainly don't want to see that effort go
down the drain.
--
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