I'm pretty sure you'd get a good discount for 52 licenses from Adobe, so give them a call. If for any reason you have to go open source, I'd strongly recommend checking out Railo. Nothing against OpenBD, but I've been really impressed by what Gert and the team have done with Railo as have many others.
For promoting ColdFusion, remember the new marketing package from Kristin - it's really cool. http://www.webbschofield.com/index.cfm/2008/9/15/ColdFusion-Evangelism-Kit Best Wishes, Peter On Sep 17, 2008, at 8:10 AM, Rob Wilson wrote: > Thanks Dale, > I was forgetting about BlueDragon ... and yes its worth a phone call > to Adobe ... Do you know someone there I can contact? > > Cheers > Rob Wilson > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of Dale Fraser > Sent: Wednesday, 17 September 2008 9:56 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [cfaussie] Re: Help selling CF as a solution vs. PHP > > Seriously, > > This many servers I would be going open source all the way, the fact > is that Adobe is just not priced for this, with that said, if you > end up going with Adobe, contact them, they should do a special > price for this type of setup. > > My advice would be > > Linux Servers > BlueDragon > MySQL > > LAMB is the new LAMP > > Plus you still have the dev / maintenance speed advantages. > > Regards > Dale Fraser > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of M@ Bourke > Sent: Wednesday, 17 September 2008 9:15 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [cfaussie] Re: Help selling CF as a solution vs. PHP > > another question would be, what features of coldfusion do you need? > maybe open BD would be fine for this application? > 52 * free = free > or Railo. > > how ever this might not be an option for various reasons, but just a > thought for you. > > On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 11:36 AM, Rob Wilson > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have just finished with IBM Australia on a project for USA - The > project is a conversion of a current CD based package for students > to a online delivered solution to approx 3 million users > with approx 1.5 million concurrent users. > > Currently the client is considering a DOT Net front end with a MS > SQL backend - the backend after speaking to IBM today require 28 > processors licences of SQL at 40k per processor > (Why MS SQL at this level is another serious question -re licensing > fees) with approx 82 plus copies of Win 2003 Enterprise licence ... > currently we are unsure of the number of web servers > .. IBM are suggesting 3 Blade Servers each holding 14 blades > > After considering the costs of the front end (web servers) just the > windows licensing costs are huge this naturally brings up the OS > costs and then leads onto the development platform > > Coldfusion has been suggested during the discussion of DOT Net and > open source solutions like PHP however the Coldfusion licence and > Linux costs exceed a Windows licence cost > and a DOT Net solution (a tool is in the process of being written to > dynamically convert the CD to a DOT Net solution so we cant use the > development time as a point) > > In looking at this a bit closer the question may be > Can a blade server use 1 Coldfusion enterprise licence? > OR > each blade within the Blade server be treated as a separate server > requiring a enterprise licence? > OR > is there a major discount for 52 copies of Coldfusion enterprise? > > Any suggestions would be great as currently the feeling is PHP is > the way to go > > Cheers > Rob Wilson > > > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "cfaussie" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cfaussie?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
