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Well I have heard from someone that was speaking to Macromedia recently, that they openly admitted to him that they can't be bothered with anyone spending less than $50k So from a support level perspective, there is another good reason for me. I have been fed up with Macromedia's disregard for their customers for some time. Russ _____ From: Niklas Richardson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 02 December 2005 15:29 To: Russ Michaels Subject: Re: blue dragon I don't disagree that BD is very attractive price wise. I guess, the point I wanted to make is that if you were really interested in the Enterprise, then the price difference probably isn't enough. On 02/12/05, Russ Michaels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Well New Atlanta also have a hosters discount, MM don't. And as for the prices. Blue Dragon J2EE or .Net 2cpu $4699 (£2610) Macromedia ColdFusion MX Enterprise £4289 Saving £1679 Blue Dragon JX $899 (£499) Coldfusion MX Standard £929 Saving £430 Quite a considerable difference. Also there is the fact that deploying Enterprise costs you a lot more in hardware, each instance of JRUN will cost you 512MB RAM, so your only liklely to get 4-6 instances on the average server. Blue Dragon J2EE using servlet exec has a much smaller footprint, and BD.NET much smaller still as you don't have deploy new instances, it is handled by the .NET application pooling and isolation. So you can have dozens of isolated instances of BD. If your just running CFMX pro and a few sites, then it probbaly doesn't make difference to you, but if your doing anything serious with enterprise level it can surely save you a lot of money per server. -- Russ _____ From: Niklas Richardson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 02 December 2005 11:07 To: Coldfusion Development Subject: Re: [CF-Dev] CF7 doesn't install on Win2003 with SP1 Okay, so CFMX Enterprise is £4,289 (ex VAT) at the moment for 2 CPUs. And that's also includes a fully licenced JRun. CFMX Standard is £929 (ex VAT) for 2 CPUs. These prices also don't take into consideration any discount you might get from buying from a reseller either. Where you could be looking at maybe 10% off. In any case, $5,000 (~£2,900) for 2 CPU BlueDragon isn't too bad for what you get, but then the difference isn't too huge if you want Enterprise (another ~£1,400). What's £1,400 when you're already spending nearly £3,000!!! ;) Anyways, I thought the BlueDragon presentation was really great, so I'm not being CF biased. But I don't think the pricing is enough of an argument to go with BlueDragon. If it was the same price as CFMX Standard, then perhaps. Anyways, my 2p. Cheers Niklas -- Niklas Richardson Prismix Ltd Flex and ColdFusion Experts! _______________________________________________ For details on ALL mailing lists and for joining or leaving lists, go to http://list.cfdeveloper.co.uk/mailman/listinfo -- CFDeveloper Sponsors:- >- Hosting provided by www.cfmxhosting.co.uk -< >- Forum provided by www.fusetalk.com -< >- DHTML Menus provided by www.APYCOM.com -< >- Lists hosted by www.Gradwell.com -< >- CFdeveloper is run by Russ Michaels, feel free to volunteer your help -<
