You can get an installer here http://wiki.openbluedragon.org/wiki/index.php/OpenBD_Installer
It will do the install using Tomcat and all the connectors you need to run on IIS 7 and Linux. This will give you a comparison of what is in OBD and CF. http://wiki.openbluedragon.org/wiki/index.php/Category:Compatibility Actually the Wiki and the Manual (http://www.openbd.org/manual/) should give you all the answers you need. There's also a very active Open Blue Dragon Google group and mailing list. You ought to post your question there. http://groups.google.com/group/openbd?pli=1 Generally I've found very few differences between the two, there are some tags that are not in OBD, but then again they've offer some tags that are not in CF. One important difference is that OBD is about at the equivalent of being halfway between CF8 and CF9. It is a bit behind Adobe 9.0 - no script based components or a script based Application.cfc. One substantial difference is in response time. When there is a bug discovered in OBD its quickly fixed, often in a matter of a few days. Adobe has about a 1 to two year product cycle - look how long it took to go from 9 to 9.01. My own experience is that Open BlueDragon is faster than CF but not as fast as Railo. Its very robust. I've run some jmeter tests on a couple of applications running under Open Blue Dragon and JBoss. Basically I set up the equivalent of these apps being slashdotted with a couple of hundred simultaneous users. It slowed down somewhat but kept going. The response time was better than Adobe CF under the same load. But whether that was because of OBD itself or because CF was running under JRun while OBD was using Tomcat as the app engine, I'm not sure. What I do know is that for the sites that I've developed that use Open Blue Dragon, the customers have been satisfied. In three cases the owners decided they needed features in CF that are not in OBD and eventually moved to CF. hth, larry On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 9:15 PM, Brian Polackoff <bpolack...@gmx.com> wrote: > > Hey everyone. > I have a client who wants a custom app written, they heard great things about > CF which is how we connected with each other. They are on a strict budget and > asked me to use the free open source server called Open Blue Dragon instead > of purchasing cf through adobe. The app will have thousands of viewers a day > (not sure how many hits/second). > > Can anyone give me some pros and cons or any personal experiences using > openBD? > > Thanks, > Brian > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:346562 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
