In case no one has yet heard, MM/Allaire posted a message on the cf-talk
mailing list over the weekend that states they will not be implementing the
hosting pricing plan afterall.
Tim P.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Fox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Fusebox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, April 30, 2001 8:46 AM
Subject: Re: Fusebox-list V1 #149
> 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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