On 11/7/05, Joe Rinehart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > And be honest, the license fee for Enterprise version of CF is completely > > insane.
http://dev2dev.bea.com/blog/estahl/archive/2005/07/the_relative_co_1.html > On top of that, if you're really in a situation where CF Ent is > justified, the license price is *dirt cheap* in the realm of truly > enterprise software. $3,000 per CPU (in 2 CPU increments). It's a one-off cost. Even if you're only charging $50 / hour that's just three weeks of work and it's paid for. Just over ten years ago, I went freelance for a while. I pimped myself out through an agency and was making just under 50 UKP per hour for C++ / Oracle / BroadVision development work (and, later on, project management work). In order to make my life simpler I bought quite a lot of software (after all, it's tax deductible) - thousands of pounds worth of software that made me more productive, mostly desktop development tools. I also went to conferences and training courses that cost thousands of pounds. To me, it was an investment. That's why I find it so puzzling to hear people say they won't pay for CF Enterprise or a dedicated server or whatever. I've been in the small business / solo developer seat - I spent five years doing it - and spending money to make money seems to be an inherent part of doing business. I'm sorry if some folks think I'm out of step with their world. Clearly my experience doesn't match theirs. If I was a solo freelance web developer today, I'd absolutely have my own dedicated server running CF Enterprise because then I could offer my clients better service and better functionality. I know shared hosting is valuable too tho' and I use it for my own site as well as a handful of cat-related sites that I've built gratis for friends (in fact, I often continue to pay for the hosting by way of a gift to those friends). -- Sean A Corfield -- http://corfield.org/ Got frameworks? "If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive." -- Margaret Atwood ---------------------------------------------------------- You are subscribed to cfcdev. To unsubscribe, send an email to [email protected] with the words 'unsubscribe cfcdev' as the subject of the email. CFCDev is run by CFCZone (www.cfczone.org) and supported by CFXHosting (www.cfxhosting.com). An archive of the CFCDev list is available at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
