While I started this thread. I would not recommend anyone move to Blue Dragon to save money. There is not that much price difference at the enterprise level, you don't have the Adobe brand and support behind you and most importantly you don't have all the features.
We use Cfreport, flash remoting, cfexchange and will use the new image, zip and lots of the ajax stuff which BD doesn't have. I actually think cfreport is one of the great unsung features of CF and with CFPRINT it gets a bit better. Imagine E-Commmerce online store, where whenever an order is placed you get an invoice or dispatch document automatically spit out on someone's printer, how cool is that. I'm not even sure how BD have a market, there is probably merit to offering a free version for non commercial use and hooking you in, this is really not much difference than developer edition (without the water marks). But it's a different mindset perhaps. For me to consider BD it would seriously need to be half the price or less. Regards Dale Fraser http://dalefraser.blogspot.com -----Original Message----- From: Larry Lyons [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, 4 August 2007 2:00 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Adobe Nails ColdFusion Cofin >> >> 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. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| ColdFusion is delivering applications solutions at at top companies around the world in government. Find out how and where now http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/showcase/index.cfm?event=finder&productID=1522&loc=en_us Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:285343 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
