picture this:

2003: reluctant IT teacher being dragged kicking and screaming away
from their beloved Microsoft product to teach ColdFusion (much humble
pie consumed later, BTW)

120 students all studying how to build dynamic websites over seven
classes in a single week. the lessons ran twice a week for over 40
weeks
5 different classrooms used as labs for students to go through
lessons, as well as other tutorial labs.
4 hour lessons

can you imagine what it's like to manage over 120 DSN's on all those
(essentially public) lab machines - each with a copy of the DEV
edition?

it was a nightmare. we _bought_ a copy of CF6.1 professional just to
teach those lessons. It should have been Enterprise,  sure, but hey IT
SHOULD HAVE BEEN FREE ... as it is now... finally.

(too late, I've moved on and they teach PHP now)

and I've also glossed over the other nightmare: managing dozens of
students using Dreamweaver Ultradev and RDS to hook up to the shared
server over the network. Premature grey hairs, I swear...

and that's not taking into account student projects, a public facing
showcase server, etc.

see how important this announcement is? (esp the PHP bit)

bah humbug






On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 11:59 AM, Chris Dawes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> you can also use it in teaching labs to teach your classes
>
> 2008/9/3 João Fernandes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>> ok, got it. not much value added in my opinion but if it can benefit
>> some, better.
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>> João Fernandes
>>
>> Adobe Community Expert
>> http://www.onflexwithcf.org
>> http://www.riapt.org
>> Portugal Adobe User Group (http://aug.riapt.org)
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