Feb 17
Well after writing a 4 page justification as to why we should migrate over to ColdFusion Enterprise at work (just as CF7 releases) mainly for application fail over and all the yumminess of running multiple instances, all it took was a flash form with an accordian, next/previous buttons and some input boxes with onBlur validation to finally get the upgrade approved!
February 17th, 2005 at 2:37 pm
Care to share your justification for enterprise?
February 17th, 2005 at 2:37 pm
John, do you know if you have to buy separate licenses for each instance you want to run? Or is it just per physical server/processor?
February 17th, 2005 at 2:51 pm
Brian, no it’s not licensed on a per instance basis. Once you have an Enterprise CF license it comes with JRun4 and you can use as many instances (CF) on the server as you like - a single CF Enterprise license covers you for a dual processor server (physical!) and your only limitation is on server resources to host the instances.
February 17th, 2005 at 2:51 pm
Dimo, that was my intention. I will do that at some point soon.
February 17th, 2005 at 2:54 pm
John, can I ask where you got that info? Is there a license to read somewhere or is it only in the ELUA you see when you install? I just want to be totally sure, because if that’s true that’s very cool!
February 17th, 2005 at 2:56 pm
http://www.macromedia.com/software/coldfusion/productinfo/product_editions/#s2 should get you started.
February 17th, 2005 at 4:17 pm
Brian, John is correct. CF is licensed by CPUs on the box, not by instances.
February 17th, 2005 at 4:32 pm
That’s great news. I was always under the impression that each instance required its own license. Is that spelled out clearly somewhere? If it is I must have missed it (someone might want to make that more clear?)
February 18th, 2005 at 4:17 am
The EULA for CFMX7 is on the macromedia site, if that helps - http://www.macromedia.com/software/eula/server/
February 18th, 2005 at 9:35 am
Lucas that does help, but if you do a search through that for "instance" you’ll find nothing. Likewise, if you search at Macromedia for "coldfusion license instance" you’ll get some articles about why multiple instances are good and a nugget like this in one of Brandon Purcell’s articles: "With a single license of ColdFusion MX for J2EE, developers and administrators can deploy an unlimited number of ColdFusion instances directly to J2EE application servers". So it is out there, I’m just saying they might want to consider making this more obvious on the actual page explaining the benefits of CF Enterprise. If I thought one needed licenses for each instance then there are probably others out there who also think so. Thanks for the link though!
February 18th, 2005 at 12:00 pm
Strange, I thought Flash Forms came with the standard edition… but the money men don’t need to know that ; )