The MM team is to be congratulated for being totally responsive to the input of the beta testors (or is that testees) for making the Report Builder available in all editions.
The features of most interest to me are: 1) read only (CD) deployment 2) flexible licensing/pricing/redistro 3) sourceless, encrypted deployment 4) event gateways 5) report generation -- Didn't get read-only deployment -- Didn't get flexible licensing/pricing/redistro - but these are policy issues and easy to add later -- got sourceless, encrypted deployment -- got event gateways -- got report generation The product editions wouldn't mean so much, as that would be trumped by flexible licensing/pricing/redistro, if it were offered. The Report Generation is win-only, which kind of works against the run anywhere / cross-platform concepts of Java implementation & deployment. Bummer! There is still no production support for OS X deployment. As Ben, and others, have pointed out (sometimes rather testily), Macromedia has just not seen enough demand to justify creating the infrastructure to support OS X-- I certainly tell everyone I know to ask for it :) To be honest, though, most people running OS X servers (and there are quite a few) seem to be using BlueDragon. While I really would like to see OS X support, it is becoming less of an issue for me, personally: -- If I run a server myself, it will be on OS X, and I will support it myself. -- If I develop CFEveywhere apps, they will run on all platforms and I will support them myself. -- I would like to be able to develop CFEverywhere apps that are CD-based and/or include event gateways and report generation, but have to bypass these features, for the present (or approximate them, myself). All negatives aside, this is a good release and moves CFML forward as a means to deliver solutions-- some, potentially, very exciting solutions. Congrats to the CFMX7 development team! Dick On Feb 7, 2005, at 3:27 AM, Ben Forta wrote: Jeff, > > <cfdocument> and Report Builder functionality is identical in all > versions. > The difference between these features in Standard versus Enterprise is > in > the number of threads allocated to generating the printable output. CF > Standard is best suited for up to 5 concurrent requests (that is > <cfdocument> and reporting requests, not all requests) whereas CF > Enterprise > is designed to be able to handle a far greater load. > > --- Ben > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jeff Chastain [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, February 06, 2005 10:55 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: RE: CFMX 7 is released > > Okay, I am looking at the product editions comparison. I knew event > gateways were going to be enterprise, but what is with the document and > report generation? There is next to no detail here, but is all report > generation limited to the enterprise edition or can some still be done > using > the standard edition? > > -- Jeff > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Logware (www.logware.us): a new and convenient web-based time tracking application. Start tracking and documenting hours spent on a project or with a client with Logware today. Try it for free with a 15 day trial account. http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=67 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:193311 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
