I want to echo what Sean said...I looked at CF8 and thought, "wow finally a product that I would really label Enterprise." Not to say CF7 wasn't Enterprise, it had some great features and was a great release, but I think the monitoring and some of the Administration changes helped make it really enterprise friendly. Thats not mentioning the performance enhancements, exchange integration (which currently means nothing to Lotus Shops bleh), and whole suite of ajax tools that really make CF shine as a UI web layer for large Java apps.
You have to look at this product and realize enterprise is worthless to you unless you really need super scalability. Standard has it all, albeit limited/throttled. Sure cfthread and exchange integration and PDF (?) are throttled but they are available and until you have 100+ (dare I say probably more) concurrent users using the exact same functionality Enterprise means very little. Its like a computer, my Mom doesn't need a dual core 64bit AMD with 2gig of ram and 256mb dedicate graphics card running iSCSI to send me pictures and read email (unless she is running Vista then she might ;) ). Gone are the days where you have to have enterprise to play with those nifty event gateways. If enterprise looks to expensive to you then you probably don't need it, or you need to look at some other Enterprise software costs and revisit in 15 minutes. Hell I say that single move by Adobe to offer a more complete Standard Edition will open more doors for ColdFusion than any single feature. I say Bravo! Adam Haskell On 7/30/07, Sean Corfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 7/29/07, Michael Dinowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > As for your post on CF 8 being a dead product because of the price > > increase, note that the increase if for Enterprise. How many people > > here (other than me) actually use or need enterprise. > > Me! > > To be honest, the difference between $3,000/CPU and $3,750/CPU is > pretty negligible in an enterprise world. For the - new-in-8 - > (multi-)server monitoring and RDS/Admin user management features, > unlimited CFTHREAD and unlimited MS Exchange integration, that extra > $750/CPU is well worth it (as well as the general reasons Enterprise > is worth paying more for: unlimited event gateways, PDF/document > services, reporting etc). > > The key thing everyone should be rejoicing about is that Standard > Edition includes: event gateways, pdf/document services, cfthread, MS > Exchange integration, reporting, presentation generation. There would > be a lot of complaints if these were Enterprise only features. There > were plenty of complaints around CFMX 7 because event gateways were > Enterprise-only! > -- > Sean A Corfield -- (904) 302-SEAN > An Architect's View -- http://corfield.org/ > > "If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive." > -- Margaret Atwood > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade to ColdFusion 8 and integrate with Adobe Flex http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJP Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:284784 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
