> Russ wrote: > > Maybe someone should make a free/open source CF server. That would > probably > > get more people using it. Of course once you've invested this much time > > into developing a product like that, it's hard not to start charging for > it. > > (Didn't CF5 and BlueDragon start out as free products?) > > There are free and cheap engines out there. > > Someone mentioned Smith already, there's also Railo's community edition > (and their other editions are very reasonable too).
I haven't looked at these yet in depth, but are they compatible enough to be useful? I remember even BD having compatibility issues. > > BD has a free edition too - I don't recall CF5 ever being free though, > unless it was some kind of upgrade promotion when Macromedia launched it > post-Allaire? > BD has a free edition, but it's pretty much useless as are the rest of their J2EE editions. The free edition doesn't support SSL and is not for commercial use, which makes it useless for most projects. The J2EE version is around the same price or more expensive then Adobe's and doesn't really provide any extra features, while not supporting many of Adobe's features. The only value I see in BD is if you want to run on the .NET platform. It probably also helps if you need to use more then 2 GB of ram for your app (Although I'm not sure how well .NET would run with that much memory being used). As far as free CF5, I'm talking about the product Macromedia bought to make CF5 (or 6), which I believe was tagfusion, which was the first, I believe, CF clone that was created in Java. Russ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Macromedia ColdFusion MX7 Upgrade to MX7 & experience time-saving features, more productivity. http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion?sdid=RVJW Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:280935 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
