Ralph, The lesson here is that you have unsupported software that Adobe does not care about. Clearly they are not concerned about whether it's licensed either so you are probably in the clear. If the university was really concerned with licensing then the IT manager would be more concerned about being on a SUPPORTED version and you would have upgraded over the years and be on at least version 7 or 8 by now. But I'm not sure you can overcome the short-sightedness of one guy who holds all the cards :)
-Mark Mark A. Kruger, MCSE, CFG (402) 408-3733 ext 105 www.cfwebtools.com www.coldfusionmuse.com www.necfug.com -----Original Message----- From: Ralph B Littleleaf [mailto:ho...@littleleaf.org] Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2011 7:11 AM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: Help us Please - CF 5 Server Licenses Thank-you all for your replies. A. Open Source Last month, a student worker setup a test Railo server and moved a copy of the CF code there. It immediately errored out. So I am not sure how much of a rewrite is needed. FYI, CF 5 predates the JAVA version of CF. B. Adobe Adobe bought out Allaire after CF 5. We were registered with Allaire but Adobe is not helpful. Basically, we were told that they do not support such an outdated version nor have records regarding them. C. Tool Unfortunately, our school is a bureaucrat's dream. Our director is helpless as the IT manager can cite univeristy SAP regulations all day. It's sad and funny at the same time. Allaire already got our money. Adobe doesn't much care as our version predates their take over. And we got five CF server boxes that are considered worthless because how software licenses are defined. PS A friend tried our legacy code on their CF 8 box, and it works. So CF 5-8 versions are possibilities so long as we can get the licenses at a price we can afford. I am afraid of getting them from eBay. How can one tell if the license is valid? -Ralph ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:344254 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
