These types of organizations love Cost/Benefit Analysis reports. Figure out how much it would cost to redevelop these applications compared to the cost of a few licenses. Also, more powerful hardware can be bought cheap (used/refurbished) and ColdFusion 7, 8 and 9 are far more powerful than ColdFusion 5 and can handle more load on a single machine than ColdFusion 5 (with proper configuration of course). It may be possible to serve the same load or greater with far fewer ColdFusion licenses.
Wil Genovese Sr. Web Application Developer/ Systems Administrator CF Webtools www.cfwebtools.com wilg...@trunkful.com www.trunkful.com On May 5, 2011, at 7:11 AM, Ralph B Littleleaf wrote: > > 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 an outdated version nor have records regarding them.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:344259 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
