I've upgraded one of my applications to CF9 (we had a support license so we got it for free) standard but I'm in the process of moving most of my apps to Railo. Railo doesn't, yet, have some of the spiffyness that CF9 does (mainly Hibernate) but it will and Railo generally performs better.
One of the biggest reasons, for me, to move to Railo instead of CF9 is the openness and extensibility. I do a lot of back end data processing and I can spawn a bunch of threads without having to worry about licensing costs. CF8/9 Standard limit you to 10 spawned threads. If you want more than that, you need to pony up for Enterprise and the additional cost just isn't worth it to me. Railo also has an extension provider system so that you can install community-created extensions and your admin will alert you when there are new versions available, making it much easier to maintain than your traditional custom tag implementation. All the ajaxy type tags are community developed in Railo and available as an extension, so it is easy to add in new features and update Ext in a way that just isn't very easy/wise with Adobe CF. Railo is also great if you want to start mucking about with cloud computing (which I have not). You can download an Amazon EC2 image, pull it up and away you go. Free, no licensing issues and already packaged up nicely for you. And, finally, Railo is just an awesome team. They are amazingly responsive and when I've found bugs they are usually discussed and fixed within 48 hours. Sometimes less but they are based in Switzerland, so there are time zone considerations. And now that they've added Sean Corfield and Mark Mandel, I have to say, they got some of the best, brightest people in the CF world onboard and that counts a lot in my book. Have you ever tried submitting a bug to Adobe for a production version of CF? Do you even know how? Total fail. With Adobe, if you don't get it fixed in pre-release, it ain't likely to get addressed. Faster engine (especially object creation), responsive developers, rapid creation of new features, solid knoweldgeable people, free unencumbered licensing. What's not to love? Judah On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 1:05 PM, Dana <[email protected]> wrote: > > Cloud is one of the things I have questions about. > > On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 1:57 PM, Cameron Childress <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 3:48 PM, Dana <[email protected]> wrote: >>> single server? Cloud or not-cloud? Where do you do your testing? >> >> I usually do dev work on my laptop or desktop using a CF Ent >> multi-instance setup. >> >> Most of my clients are corporate and have their own environments for >> hosting. Some are VPS accounts at a commercial datacenter or in their >> own datacenter. A couple are on dedicated equipment in a commercial >> datacenter or in their own datacenter. None are using Amazon Cloud or >> Rackspace Cloud or anything similar yet. >> >> Functional and regression testing is usually done locally with tools >> such as CFCUnit. Very few do formal load testing or even QA testing. >> >> None of the above is specific to CF9 though. Are you trying to find >> someone hosting with CF9 in the cloud? I doubt there are many yet, >> relatively speaking >> >> -Cameron >> >> ... >> >> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:312775 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
