Sometimes physical servers do have exceptions on licensing. I believe MS allows you to use the same license for a failover box for sql (at least that's what I remember reading somewhere).
I don't see why you can't just install the developer version of CF, and have that waiting for a failover, and then just plug in the license when you actually do need to fail over to it. Russ > -----Original Message----- > From: Teddy Payne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2006 4:36 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: Disaster recovery license for Coldfusion > > I have not heard of this premise before. The whole purpose of a failover > is > to be online and waiting for a failure from a primary server. Having the > server turned off would defeat the speed of a failover box. Unless you > are > dealing with Virtual servers failovers where licensing can get grey, > physical servers tend not to have exceptions on server licenses. > > Teddy > > On 8/31/06, Alan Rother <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I'd like to preface this response by saying, "I don't really know, I'm > > just > > guessing." > > > > With that in mind, I would say no, you can't do that. If you have the > > thing > > turned on and running, with all of the software installed waiting for a > > failover, I think you would need a seperate license. Now if you had a > > spare > > box, turned off and with no software installed and a failure occurred > and > > THEN you installed the license from the now dead box, that would be ok. > > > > Think of it this way, you are using that second box, maybe not actively, > > but > > you are using it. Do you think Microsoft would accept the same argument > > with > > regards to any of it's products? > > > > The best way I can come up with determining if you should buy another > > license for anything is by placing value on it. If by having the > software > > on > > a server and up and running you are in effect getting value out of it. > The > > value it is giving you is piece of mind and saved time in the event of a > > failure. > > > > Just my 2 cents. When in doubt, read the EULA > > > > -- > > Alan Rother > > Macromedia Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX 7 Developer > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:251697 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
