IDE announced: IDE/Compiler Business Model

> If anything they should charge $500 for an IDE and give away ColdFusion for free That is so much better of a business model. The main problem selling CF web sites is the cost to deploy a site. Too much of the burden is going to the site owners or hosts. What they should do is give away a free CFSERVER runtime that only runs compiled code and sell the IDE/compiler to developers. The whole business model is backwards the way it is now, and it's definitely hurting sales. Developers are always willing to pay for an IDE/compiler. And that would also solve the whole issue the need to encrypt CFcode before deploying to an unfamiliar ISP's server. I love CF and would really like to see Adobe fix this business model. It would definitely be better for the whole CF community and would make CF a more competitive solution. Robert B. Harrison Director of Interactive services Austin & Williams 125 Kennedy Drive, Suite 100 Hauppauge NY 11788 T : 631.231.6600 Ext. 119 F : 631.434.7022 www.austin-williams.com Great advertising can't be either/or... It must be &.

From Adobe's standpoint is probably does not make sense to open   source or give their engine away for free when there is Railo and   OpenBD. On Nov 19, 2008, at 9:37 PM, Robert Harrison wrote: > I love CF and would really like to see Adobe fix this business   > model. It > would definitely be better for the whole CF community and would make   > CF a > more competitive solution. -- Razuna On-Demand - Hosted Digital Asset Management Solution Razuna - Open Source Digital Asset Management with Web Content   Management http://www.razuna.vom/ Razuna - Open Source Forum Solution http://www.kabunto.org/ Roozani - memorize everywhere http://www.roozani.com/ SixSigns - Enrich people?s lives and web experience http://www.sixsigns.com http://blog.sixsigns.com Follow us on Twitter http://twitter.com/sixsigns