Guys, I'm sure I'm going to catch flak, but I think everyone is totally
overreacting to this whole hosting licensing thing.
1. I doubt very much that this is going to be an issue where every
CFApplication costs more money. I just don't think they are that stupid. So
it's really about 1 company/ 1 copy of CF (except large corporate clients
with multiple servers, in which case they already had to buy more than one
copy)
2. The model makes pefect sense, and is fair, from a hosting standpoint.
Let's look at this from Macromedia's POV for a sec. 50 companies need a CF
app. That should be 50 sales of CF. Instead they all get together on one
hosted server, and there is 1 copy of CF sold. Pre-4.0, there just weren't
very many CF hosting shops, so Allaire got basically one CF sale for each
company that was running CF apps, or several sales if they had multiple
servers. Now, with the rise in CF hosting, they get 1 sale. They can't stay
in business long that way.
BTW, I'm not affiliated with Allaire/Macromedia, or a stockholder (more's
the pity). But I can see that they've been losing out on a lot of sales to
hosting shops, and that they feel they have to stem that tide somehow.
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