Let's just say I'm no longer LONG on my MACR stock position.
I thought only Adobe could fornicate a wet dream this bad (acrobat),
Macrallaire has just taken white board marketing genius to a new level.
Phhhhhhttt!
I wonder how many CF'rs will now be consulting with Ivanapulo? :-)
Steve
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Pierce" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, April 27, 2001 9:06 PM
Subject: RE: FAQ POSTED: New CF5 Partner Hosting License
> Worse news. If I understand the fact correctly and remember current
pricing,
> if you are hosting company using 4.5 PRO, your costs just went up 300% if
> you want to move to 5.0. No volume pricing in the world is going to make
up
> for a 300% price increase.
>
> No matter how you slice it, hosting prices just went up when the price for
> the server license really needed to go down.
>
> If increasing the price of licenses for server hosting is really going to
> improve the revenue stream, market share, and profitability for
Macromedia,
> the market price of MACR stock should take an up tick next week. So by the
> middle of next week, we should see what the folks on Wall Street think
about
> this price increase. I am guessing that most hosting companies are going
to
> hate the idea.
>
> 'night
>
> - Steve
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Pierce [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, April 27, 2001 11:51 PM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: RE: FAQ POSTED: New CF5 Partner Hosting License
>
>
> The Server Hosting license is a 20% price increase for hosting. If you are
> unlucky enough to host on a quad processor Compaq box, the cost for a
> license just went up a whopping 140%. This is not what we needed.
>
> - Steve
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: C. Hatton Humphrey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, April 27, 2001 11:10 PM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: FAQ POSTED: New CF5 Partner Hosting License
>
>
> There is now an official definition of the Cold Fusion 5.0 Hosting Service
> Provider edition available at:
> http://www.allaire.com/products/coldfusion/cf5hostingfaq.html. It was
> posted on one of the other lists I'm on and I'm suprised it didn't make it
> here.
>
> I'm glad I waited to chime in... this is actually looking to me to read
like
> an improvement rather than a money grab. Anything to improve the
> reliability "out of the box" for any of the hosting providers is a big
plus.
> I've dealt with two, one that didn't care beyond the collections
department
> and another that bent over backwards to help. In both instances the
server
> hit periods of problematic operation. Now I'm hoping this version will
> stabilize things a bit.
>
> (*resubmits his purchase request for the CF Developers Cert Study Guide*)
>
> Enjoy the weekend!
> Hatton Humphrey
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Dinowitz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, April 27, 2001 6:50 PM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: Re: New CF5 Partner Hosting License
>
>
> A/MM just posted to the list a nice rundown on what's happening. Close
> enough for the weekend.
>
>
> > > Don't panic yet. I believe a FAQ is in the works that will explain all
> > this.
> > > Stay tuned.
> >
> >
> >
> > Ahh, but will the FAQ arrive before we all spend the weekend planning
our
> > alternatives? :)
> >
> >
> >
>
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