On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 10:01 AM, Eric Knipp <[email protected]> wrote:
> What do you think are the implications for Adobe ColdFusion here? You'd have to ask Adobe. > If I > want to run production Adobe CF "in the cloud" I have to do it on EC2 > or similar cloud system infrastructure, and I have to buy some kind of > license. App Engine allows me to get roughly 5m "page requests" per > month for free. When we add the overhead of BlueDragon, Mach-II, > ColdSpring, etc. that 5m probably goes down but I am still getting a > fully pay-for-use model with some free runway to play with. I don't > see enterprises migrating onto this model very quickly but smaller CF > development shops doing tactical projects might shift usage. Thoughts? > > We're definitely seeing interest pick up in this area for many of the reasons you outline. People who haven't looked into GAE assume it's the same as EC2, but once they read up on it more there's a lot of appeal in deploying apps as opposed to having to maintain an entire server to run an app. Personally this is where I think commercial licenses start to fall down--most commercial licenses aren't set up in such a way (and certainly aren't priced in such a way) that per-app deployment is feasible. I suppose a by-the-hour pricing model is what you get into if you want to charge people for the software the app is running on. Pretty sure you can do that with EC2, but I have no idea if GAE supports this sort of model. Life in the cloud is a whole lot simpler when you don't have to worry about licensing. -- Matthew Woodward [email protected] http://mpwoodward.posterous.com identi.ca/Twitter: @mpwoodward Please do not send me proprietary file formats such as Word, PowerPoint, etc. as attachments. http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html -- Open BlueDragon Public Mailing List http://www.openbluedragon.org/ http://twitter.com/OpenBlueDragon mailing list - http://groups.google.com/group/openbd?hl=en !! save a network - please trim replies before posting !!
