I think its fair to say that unless there are very special circumstances, such as Ray Camden's case where he is doing it with Adobe's agreement (and presumably assistance), it would be lunacy for a hosting company to use an unreleased version of ColdFusion, even supposing they had a copy that they could use.
If anything went wrong with the installation there would be no support. If a site owner used a 'feature' that's in the unreleased version, then when the real version is delivered that feature hasnt been included for any reason there will be big trouble. Anyway, by definition, a beta version is not fully tested. There are assumed to be bugs in it. Thats why there is a test going on! Any hosting company that puts system software on production machines that hasnt been fully tested is just asking for trouble. And if it's not released, and if it's not installed under a special licence of the kind that I suppose Ray Camden has, then it's illegal software. So except for two or three exceptions, any hosting company claiming to have CF8 installed is simply wrong. They dont, not legally anyway. Cheers Mike Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia Adobe Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer AFP Webworks http://afpwebworks.com ColdFusion, PHP, ASP, ASP.NET hosting from AUD$15/month On 3/5/07, Steve Onnis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Wouldn't it also be against the NDA to be running it in a production > environment and charging clients to use it? > > -----Original Message----- > From: cfaussie@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf > Of Duncan > Sent: Monday, 5 March 2007 10:31 AM > To: cfaussie@googlegroups.com > Subject: [cfaussie] Re: ColdFusion Hosting > > > > "Surely no one is hosting scorpio yet?" > > http://www.gotcfm.com/thelist.cfm > > I was amazed to see the number of sites on here claiming to be running > CF 8. I know Camden.org and forta are running it - given their roles > in Adobe - no surprise. > > But Aspen Snowmass? Abercrombie & Kent? I understand Adobe's faith in > their Beta products, but surely a company wouldn't consider running > their production and mission critical apps on a product in beta. Or is > it really that good? > > Duncan > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "cfaussie" group. To post to this group, send email to cfaussie@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cfaussie?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
