I thought only Adobe could fornicate a wet dream this bad (acrobat), Macrallaire has just taken white board marketing genius to a new level.

Phhhhhhttt!

I wonder how many CF'rs will now be consulting with Ivanapulo? :-)

Steve

----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Pierce" <Steve.Lists@HDL.com> To: "CF-Talk" <cf-talk@houseoffusion.com> Sent: Friday, April 27, 2001 9:06 PM Subject: RE: FAQ POSTED: New CF5 Partner Hosting License

> Worse news. If I understand the fact correctly and remember current pricing, > if you are hosting company using 4.5 PRO, your costs just went up 300% if > you want to move to 5.0. No volume pricing in the world is going to make up > for a 300% price increase. > > No matter how you slice it, hosting prices just went up when the price for > the server license really needed to go down. > > If increasing the price of licenses for server hosting is really going to > improve the revenue stream, market share, and profitability for Macromedia, > the market price of MACR stock should take an up tick next week. So by the > middle of next week, we should see what the folks on Wall Street think about > this price increase. I am guessing that most hosting companies are going to > hate the idea. > > 'night > > - Steve > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Steve Pierce [mailto:Steve.Lists@HDL.com] > Sent: Friday, April 27, 2001 11:51 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: RE: FAQ POSTED: New CF5 Partner Hosting License > > > The Server Hosting license is a 20% price increase for hosting. If you are > unlucky enough to host on a quad processor Compaq box, the cost for a > license just went up a whopping 140%. This is not what we needed. > > - Steve > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: C. Hatton Humphrey [mailto:chumphrey@fishertowne.com] > Sent: Friday, April 27, 2001 11:10 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: FAQ POSTED: New CF5 Partner Hosting License > > > There is now an official definition of the Cold Fusion 5.0 Hosting Service > Provider edition available at: > http://www.allaire.com/products/coldfusion/cf5hostingfaq.html. It was > posted on one of the other lists I'm on and I'm suprised it didn't make it > here. > > I'm glad I waited to chime in... this is actually looking to me to read like > an improvement rather than a money grab. Anything to improve the > reliability "out of the box" for any of the hosting providers is a big plus. > I've dealt with two, one that didn't care beyond the collections department > and another that bent over backwards to help. In both instances the server > hit periods of problematic operation. Now I'm hoping this version will > stabilize things a bit. > > (*resubmits his purchase request for the CF Developers Cert Study Guide*) > > Enjoy the weekend! > Hatton Humphrey > > -----Original Message----- > From: Michael Dinowitz [mailto:mdinowit@houseoffusion.com] > Sent: Friday, April 27, 2001 6:50 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: New CF5 Partner Hosting License > > > A/MM just posted to the list a nice rundown on what's happening. Close > enough for the weekend. > > > > > Don't panic yet. I believe a FAQ is in the works that will explain all > > this. > > > Stay tuned. > > > > > > > > Ahh, but will the FAQ arrive before we all spend the weekend planning our > > alternatives? :) > > > > > > >