Bouwens, Ryan wrote:
You guys are way over complicating this. The issue is not Coldfusion
jobs, the issue I think is the side work.
Sean pointed out that the PHP hype is handled by the developers, that is very true. A PHP developer can walk into any office and say "I can automate that" and they say, "But we can't afford a server", and the developer responds, "I will give you a server, plus I can have the server handle your email and other services". Then they go pull something out of the bin. This is what spreads PHP.
Now translate this to the CF world. Unless you don't mind using a sub-par CF replacement like Blue Dragon, the small business just has way too much investment to make a simple project work.
I would have thought small business would be more interested in a shared hosting setup as a first step than running their own server (even one pulled out of a bin), in which case there's little difference in operating costs between CF and PHP. The difference is in development and maintenance - for equivalent functionalilty things will be a lot cheaper to develop in CF over PHP.
BTW, If a small business is worried about spending less than $100/month to host a dynamic website, you'd have to ask why do they have one? Is the amount of business/savings generated by the site less than this? If this is the case they certainly won't get any ROI on the cost of the site development, which will be far greater than the hosting costs.
Cheers,
Robin http://www.rocketboots.com.au
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