After the dot bomb companies began to scrutinize their I.T spending much
more closely. You have to do your due diligence and make sure you're
selecting the right technology, and part of the criteria is price. I've
seen a lot of enterprises go with the second best option (features wise)
because it's 3X cheaper.
If the price goes up in Q2 - well Macromedia's a business and is going
to do what they feel they got to do and I guess feels they have enough
pricing power to make that kind of play (a public company is ultimately
responsible to their shareholders). For me though, I work for a company
that has deep pockets, but at the same time they're extremely careful at
how they spend. Selling the company on the current price was extremely
difficult - doubling the price will make it impossible. I love Flex, but
a price increase will garauntee that we'll never be able to afford
anymore licenses - so we'll somehow just have to live with our limited
Flex environment for the time being. Our only hope would be to do sell
the concept of Flex to other organizations in the company and get some
combined purchasing power going on.
On the flip side though, if the price does go up, I'm pretty impressed
that Macr has that kind of pricing power with Flex. Either the demand is
really huge and/or the companies buying it don't find it a barrier if
the price is $6K/CPU vs $12K/CPU.
Robert Stuttaford wrote:
>And all of this back-n-forth on a rumour, and one regarding something
>happening on April the FIRST!
>
>One thing to remember: MM made Flex for the big Enterprise-level companies.
>Granted, it's useful to everyone, not just these companies. I guess MM won't
>mind being blamed for making such awesome software and it being wanted by
>everyone regardless of the size of their pocket. But, it is business, and MM
>did decide that this was at the 'big' end of their business.
>
>>From what I understand of such things (not much), $12k for 2 procs is dirt
>cheap compared to other ent servers... and $20k for 1 proc is still cheaper.
>I might be wrong :) I'm quite sure that MM won't come knocking on your door
>demanding another 28k if you have paid for the license already. Don't forget
>that there are non-com licenses for the small web-shop type companies that
>make it their business to build bespoke RIAs (I assume).
>
>I must admit, for me, a switch to Lazlo is scary. You might not have
>purchased your Flex license yet, but how much money have you already spent
>in developer time on Flex? Are you willing to write that off and start
>again?
>
>Remember, Flex servers CAN serve multiple applications. If you're concerned
>about the price, think longer term, and write more useful software using
>Flex so it earns it's keep and your ROI goes up! I'm sure that you all have
>one or two completely unexplored project ideas, that if given the time,
>would be of potentially massive benefit to your company or clients.
>
>
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