[thelist] ColdFusion and PhP

Martin martin at members.evolt.org
Sat Jul 7 18:01:39 CDT 2001


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Christine Korza wrote on 7/7/01 11:18 pm

>Should I even mention the cost differences? PHP is FREE, open source. While
>I'm not sure the cost of Coldfusion, the cost is in the $1000's... easily
>sticking ColdFusion out of the reach of the casual webmaster.

But hosting costs will be about the same as the USP is "Reasonably
robust database connectivity".

I would expect CF to have a more robust security model (don't
know PHP well enough, but if I was Allaire/MM I'd be very keen
to have this), so risk-based pricing would suggest that CF hosting
might be a bit cheaper.

In each case, the capital cost of a CF server license to a sizable hosting
company is negligible compared to the variable costs involved.

Cheers
Martin

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