>> >> We use it at here at ATCC. But given this price increase we'll >> probably be moving over to Blue Dragon. > >Now *THAT* is perfectly reasonable. > >As long as you keep in mind that you're giving up a lot of features >that Adobe Coldfusion offers that Bluedragon does not currently offer, >like flash remoting, event gateways, cfreport, flash forms, >cfexchange, cfpresentation, > >Rick
We don't use flash remoting, cfreport, flash forms, cfexchange or cfpresentation. The gateways may be a problem (given a couple of projects involving real-time data collection from a couple of DNA/PCR analysis robots) but a possible work around may be using JMS. For most of what CF8 offers, Blue Dragon offers the same, and where it doesn't, there are open source java projects that we can integrate with our apps if we need that functionality. Essentially it was not a decision I was involved in (being just a peon when it comes to the bean counting stuff), but I can see the rationale used by the PHB's. The decision was about making a leap from cfmx 6.1 to either BD7 or cfmx8. The costs for upgrading from our current setup to BlueDragon7 plus a 2 year subscription was less than half the cost to upgrade 10+ servers to CFMX8 with no subscriptions at all. Moreover in terms of compatibility, I've had to change nothing so far to accommodate the switch, and deploying to JBoss is much easier than jrun. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:285324 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
