Good point. I thought twice about adding the link to Terry's other blog entry that addressed that (a bit). Should have thought a third time. :-) Here it is:
http://www.terrenceryan.com/blog/post.cfm/coldfusion-9-eula-changes /charlie > -----Original Message----- > From: ad...@acfug.org [mailto:ad...@acfug.org] On Behalf Of John Mason > Sent: Friday, July 09, 2010 5:03 PM > To: discussion@acfug.org > Subject: Re: [ACFUG Discuss] CF 9 enterprise license plus free development > license > > Well that and it depends on if they're using virtualization. > > John > ma...@fusionlink.com > > > > On 7/9/10 4:53 PM, Charlie Arehart wrote: > > Well, to be clear, you say he may need only one CF 9 Enterprise license, but > would > > that be because you're assuming the other 2 he owns are for test only? He > doesn't > > quite say that, as far as I see. He said: > > > > > >> We already have about 3 ColdFusion 7 enterprise licenses and this would be > >> an upgrade. I am not sure how to proceed since we want CF 9 only in > >> development for now as we are testing. Like I said, our trial expires soon. > >> > > It's not clear from that if all 3 cf7 ent licenses are used in production. > > But > yes, if > > perhaps only 1 was, the other two were for test only, then yes he can get by > with 1. > > But I'd be surprised to hear of someone paying for 3 enterprise license and > using 2 in > > test and 1 in prod. :-) Sure, it could happen (test, staging, production), > > but > that > > seems rare. So I just wanted to get clarification before Ajas makes a > > mistaken > > conclusion. > > > > But yes, as for pure development (single server, only a couple of users), > > you > don't > > even need to buy a CF9 license. That's indeed where the free Dev edition can > suffice. > > > > One last point of clarification for Ajas (or others): only with purchase of > CF9 do you > > get the privilege to run its license in a test/staging server. There's no > > grandfathering of 8, 7, etc. > > > > For more on all this, see this blog entry from Terry Ryan: > > http://www.terrenceryan.com/blog/post.cfm/coldfusion-9-testing-staging-and- > development > > -changes-to-eula > > > > See also especially all the comment that followed. > > > > /charlie ------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, manage your profile @ http://www.acfug.org?fa=login.edituserform For more info, see http://www.acfug.org/mailinglists Archive @ http://www.mail-archive.com/discussion%40acfug.org/ List hosted by http://www.fusionlink.com -------------------------------------------------------------
