glad to help. On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 10:10 PM, Brian Polackoff <bpolack...@gmx.com> wrote: > > 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 >>> >>> >> >> > >
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