----- Original Message -----
From: "Bud" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, April 28, 2001 12:13 PM
Subject: RE: New CF5 Partner Hosting License
> On 4/28/01, Paul Smith penned:
> >Perhaps I didn't read things quite correctly, but doesn't this
development
> >work in favor of those small developers who put a box somewhere and go
into
> >the business hosting the apps they develop?
>
> I am basically such a developer. I may have 2 clients with access to
> my box who even know what ColdFusion is, other than what I tell them.
> So I'm fine with Pro rather than Enterprise. So you'd have to explain
> to me how spending $6,000 for functionality I don't require when the
> functionality I do require is available for $1,100 will work in my
> favor.
>
> >
> >And doesn't this development also mean the financial barriers have been
> >raised for a customer to transfer their CF app to a non-single-developer
> >hosting provider?
>
> The problem for me is not my existing clients. Everything I've built
> to date is built to run on 4.0/4.5. I'll keep them on a box with 4.5.
> But I won't be able to update that 4.5 to 5.x and take advantage of
> the new benefits for future sites. And when I fill up my current box
> and need a new box, then what if 4.5 isn't available? I'm not going
> to spend $6,000 because I'd have to raise hosting prices on that box
> and the average 45 per month I charge to host CF sites now is right
> at the upper limit of what an end user will pay that doesn't
> understand the technology or that doesn't have a very profitable
> website.
>
> So, I get out of the dynamic application hosting business or I take
> advantage of a free technology.
Bud,
You're in absolutely the worst possible position for this new development in
creative pricing, and I know of _many_ developers hosting their clients'
sites who are in the same position. Who can afford $6000 spread out over 30
or 40 web sites?
Jim
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