Quote Originally Posted by jmarcv View Post
if your client ever gets to the point they need a dedicated server -- ouch! Now THEY have to purchase it! And what if they grow beyond that? Its a per server, not a per domain license I believe?
This is all true and valid, though your first license will technically work on multiple machines -- you know, for testing.

Sure some would argue that if they get that big they can afford it, but people always seem to equate growth with success until they actually start growing and get a rude awakening when their costs tend to grow faster than their gross profits.
Yep, this can happen.

I would be a little leary of jumping on CF myself, because at some point I would be suspicious that Macromedia may decide to shelve it. It can't be generating that many sales, but I could be wrong.
Actually, CF is produced by Adobe now. And this was the first argument a PHPer made to me when I started using CF -- in 1999...

If you build a site in CF8, you can use ASP and Java classes and lots of different scripts, web services, etc. You're not exactly stuck with CF.

And then I am a PHP fanatic so my views may be skewed.
Haha, mine too, in case you couldn't tell.

Quote Originally Posted by Websync View Post
Thank you both for your sharing your insights on ColdFusion. This pretty much validates what I was thinking. It really doesn’t sound like it is worth all the expense, especially if the license is per domain! I have only had to turn down one job that required ColdFusion, so I won’t lose sleep over it.


The license is per server. You can happily host many CF clients on the same server.

It's rare that you'll get a job that "requires" CF, unless the client already has a CF setup and wants dev work done on top of it. I don't even know if I've ever gotten a gig like that, since there are plenty of CF devs around pimping themselves as such (which I don't). I usually turn new clients on to CF when they find out how much faster I'll deliver their apps.