[thelist] Development databases & ColdFusion

On Tue, 04 Jan 2000, Dan wrote:

> > How *do* our resident CFheads develop for 3rd-party hosted sites?
> 
> The niche that my company has is we not only host a website and a dsn,
> but we have our backend on oracle.. So instead of our clients having to
> go out and buy an Oracle license for their e-commerce site, they just
> pay us more to host it here and use our database. We paid a shitload for
> our License so our clients wouldn't have to. Kinda like application
> hosting or something.. *shrug*
Makes a lot of sense for those really muscular sites. Actually, the kind of
space I was thinking of is the db version of the '50Mb web space, plus full CGI
for $1/200' deal. I assume they'd have to set up the DSN for you (cos they're
admining the CF), but the rest is up to you.

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