RE: site design II - databasing it

You're right; they're not free. However, innumerable Microsoft customers out
there have the perception that ASP is free, because most tools used to
develop it are included with NT installation media. It's this perception,
and the failure of business owners to consider purchase costs vs
development/maintenance costs, that causes ColdFusion advocates much
frustration. I'm told that PHP advocates have faced frustration arising from
customer perception that open source means low quality. A similar myth
surrounds a lot of perfectly good shareware. Finally, it has been my
experience that the ColdFusion development community is unusually generous
about sharing the details of various solutions, so in effect we share most
of the characteristics of an open-source community (except for that pesky
purchase price).

Keith Purtell, Web Designer


> -----Original Message-----
> Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 23:41:58 -0500
> From: Jeff Demel <jeff(at)cosmiczombie.com>
> Subject: Re: site design II - databasing it
>
> Looks like I get to prattle on some more about freedom.
>
> First, NT/ASP is not free in either sense of the term.  I
> don't know where that came from.
>
> PHP is not just cost-free, it's also open-source and released
> under the GNU
> public license.  Cold Fusion, while a completely adequate development
> environment, is neither free nor open.

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