we have bought cf off ebay several times. you do get some dodgy ones for sure, but if they are legit then they will have a boxed product and a license key/card, which u can asked them to send you a scan of.
On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 2:35 PM, Mark A. Kruger <mkru...@cfwebtools.com>wrote: > > 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 an outdated version nor have records regarding them.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:344261 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
