Larry, Thank you got such a good and quick response! These resources were exact what I needed. Thanks again!
Thanks, Brian On Feb 8, 2012, at 9:55 PM, "Larry C. Lyons" <larrycly...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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:346565 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
