----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim McAtee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, April 28, 2001 9:10 PM
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> So, you're saying Macromedia is _purposely_ trying to get out of being an
> application server for low-end, shared hosting? And they're doing this by
> making it prohibitively expensive for hosting providers. I think you're
> onto something.
Macromedia would be exceptionally unwise to fragment the market like that. MM do
not have a monopoly on hosting middleware as we have been discussing, and
thereasons that they have been able to charge a price when most other middleware
are free, are not compelling enough to guarantee them market position in the
future - especially with the power of M$ and ASP.Net which will be free to host,
and the advancing PHP, and then there is XML of course and others.
As I keep saying - look what happened to Netscape Navigator vis a vis Internet
Explorer - Netscape's entire business model collapsed it seems because IE was
bundled and free. The same applies to CF v ASP and to a lesser extent PHP.
As I also keep saying - with apologies for being repetitive - MM would do much
better to stay with their central business model as a producer of Web
application development and productivity software, and make CF server free. By
doing that it will be be much more widely deployed, will become a standard
hosting option alongside ASP, PHP etc.. and with orders of magnitudes more
developers resulting, and in turn purchasing Macromedia's development tools.
MM's ownership of CF will give them a commanding position in the CF development
market which people will pay for.
If developers leave CF for ASP or PHP - they will never go back to CF. MM should
be securing the future of CF as a vehicle to sell development tools, rather than
hastening its demise.
Adrian Cooper.
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