Sean,
It's not often I disagree with you but on this occasion I think I do.
When hunting for contracts / customers, we're competing with companies who are using JSP, Asp.Net etc. The competition can set the whole thing up without the licensing overhead which we have to pass onto the Customer. For smaller apps (the kind where we would consider using shared hosting for) this gives the JSP /
Asp.Net developers a competitive advantage. Given that Coldfusion is sold (to some extent) on how good it is for building <emp>small sites</emp> quickly, your argument seems a little counter-intutive.
It could be argued that the speed of development using Coldfusion would offset the cost of the license but I don't think this is strong argument. Personally, I can build a web app in Asp.Net more quickly than in Coldfusion. And once I've finished an application I can roll it out to as many clients as I want (maximising return on time / effort /money invested) without having to pay additional license fees.
And be honest, the license fee for Enterprise version of CF is completely insane.
Cheers Pete (aka lad4bear)
PS: I'd also appreciate it if you can tell me who's idea it was to make Asynchrous Processing an Enterprise only feature, cos I think I need to have a ...ahem ... little word (4 letters to be precise) with them ;)
On 07/11/05, Sean Corfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 11/6/05, Nando <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hmmm ... i wish it was that simple. It isn't.
Sure it is. You get what you pay for. If you care about your site
being up 24x7, you need to pay for that and get a dedicated server.
> When you're employed, you don't lose your job on days when someone is
> fiddling around like that on a server you've got a shared site on. But when
> you're running your own small company, those are the days you lose clients,
If your business depends on it, you should be using a dedicated
server. If you "save money" by using a shared host, then the cost may
well be lost clients.
I'm sorry, but this is a really simple business equation.
I mean, come on, how much is a dedicated server? How many clients can
you host on it (and resell the hosting fee yourself)? How much is your
reputation worth?
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Sean A Corfield -- http://corfield.org/
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