Comments on: ColdFusion is officially open source; Railo eats BlueDragon; What about Adobe?

By: Shawn Grigson

Shawn Grigson — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 16:03:54 +0000

This was where I originally found the mention of the licensing changes: http://www.terrenceryan.com/blog/post.cfm/coldfusion-9-eula-changes

I haven’t drilled down into the specifics yet, so I’d hate to quote you wrong, and there seems to be an expectation of licensing based on ‘cloud computing’, so I’m not sure if there’s a restriction on licenses for physical servers versus server instances, but I can’t really see a huge difference there, so hopefully Adobe doesn’t, either.

By: Marty McGee

Marty McGee — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:55:31 +0000

Thank you Shawn for your reply – I jumped out of my seat when I read your statement for CF9 Enterprise for use with up to 10 separate production servers. That is the best news I’ve heard so far about Adobe ColdFusion 9, non-technical of course. I am going to share this post with my development team. We’re a die hard ColdFusion house, with just about 10 servers needing a CF8-to-CF9 upgrade. Thanks again all.

Marty McGee

By: Shawn Grigson

Shawn Grigson — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 14:49:25 +0000

Now that Railo is at their final 3.1, I’m in complete agreement. Bear in mind, the new CF9 licensing (enterprise) allows for a single license to be used for up to 10 separate production servers, and all CF9 licenses include dev/staging licenses. This is a good move on Adobe’s part, though it’s still not as free (as in beer) as Railo.

Railo has also proven to be very stable, and also very fast, certainly a viable alternative. I’ve noticed I’ve had to make a few tweaks to Railo apps if I’m porting them over from CF8, but with the exception of certain frameworks like Transfer ORM, I have had no real compatibility issues.

By: Marty McGee

Marty McGee — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:02:46 +0000

To me, Railo is the best thing is, well, ColdFusion. I am a professional CF developer (along with other web technologies and languages), and indeed, especially today, smack dab in the middle of the Open Source Revolution, license fees for web frameworks should be a distant memory. With Railo, I am free and able to launch 30 servers in the Cloud, each running a super fast and reliable CFML engine, all using the free version of Railo. With Adobe’s license fees, that would cost our company upwards of $45,000, and $0.00 DOES NOT EQUAL $45,000.00. Of course when we are ready to start clustering our application servers, the Railo Enterprise solutions are more than 50% cheaper than obtaining and running as many Adobe ColdFusion licenses. Hailo Railo, TomCat, Geronimo and/or JBoss – the future of viable Enterprise CFML implementation. Keep these articles coming!!! Very informative and intriguing. Thanks – Marty McGee

By: CFFanBoy

CFFanBoy — Tue, 19 May 2009 19:40:06 +0000

Well I think its CFML now has open source engines as ColdFusion ( by Adobe ) is still not open source.

Great article and I’ll agree Railo is an excellent addition to the CFML space.