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Just to clarify, the cost savings can be even more dramatic than that. First, 
the issue of per-cpu pricing that Gary
mentions is with regard to BlueDragon J2EE and .NET editions. As he says, in a 
single CPU setup, the cost ($2499/cpu)
would be half that of CFMX Enterprise ($5999 per 2 cpus).

Now, some will want to compare standalone editions rather than J2EE/.NET. The 
news can be even better there. First, our
commercial standalone edition, BlueDragon Server JX, is only $899/server. Not 
that's *per server*. CF7 is no longer
priced that way, even for the standalone Standard edition ($1299 per 2 cpus):

http://www.macromedia.com/software/coldfusion/productinfo/product_editions/#s3

In other words, Standard edition is now licensed in the same "per 2 CPU 
minimum" approach that Enterprise was before.
But the price wasn't raised, so few noticed. 

So on a box with more than 2 CPUs, the price advantage for BlueDragon Server JX 
($899/server) will be still greater
compared even to CF Standard ($1299 per 2 cpus).

All that said, I'd like to clarify that we don't really try to sell BD on 
price. Since you have to do testing, etc, the
few hundred dollar difference can be eaten up in a day's effort in current 
developer rates of pay (effort you'd spend on
upgrading from one edition of CF to another, I'll note).

I wouldn't even have brought this issue of price up had Gary not left open a 
couple points for clarification. When one
talks about many boxes or many CPUs, it is an advantage. Better are all the 
other advantages BD offers, outlined on our
site, in our docs, in CFDJ articles, and in our presentations (or offered to 
anyone who wants a live web presentation).

Charlie Arehart
CTO, New Atlanta Communications, makers of BlueDragon
(678) 256-5395 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.newatlanta.com/bluedragon/

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gary F
> Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2006 7:58 PM
> To: Coldfusion Development
> Subject: Re: [CF-Dev] CFDeveloper now supports BlueDragon
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> Nice one, Russ.
> 
> Quick tip to everyone on how to save up to £2000 per CF 
> installation. If you go the BlueDragon route you pay per CPU, 
> so if you buy a dual core server you only need 1 license 
> which is half the price of a CF7 license because MAdobe only 
> sell a 2-cpu license. A good dual core server (Opteron) may 
> cost up to £500 more but you'll still save a lot. (And 
> Opterons are faster and run cooler than Pentiums & Xeons.)
> 
> This post was sponsored by AMD & New Atlanta. ;-)
> 
> Gary.
> 
> 
> On 1/12/06, Snake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > Dear Members,
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> > If you use the developer hosting on cfdeveloper, you may be 
> pleased to 
> > know that I have now added BlueDragon support.
> >
> > Details here:
> > 
> http://www.cfdeveloper.co.uk/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=297&PN=1&TPN=1
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> > Regards
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> > Russ Michaels
> > CFDeveloper.co.uk
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