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obouillaud
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July 13, 2007
Question

coldfusion developer edition for production ?

  • July 13, 2007
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Hi

I need to daily generate a pdf file from a database and make some small file manipulations and Coldfusion is the perfect solution for me as it would take me very little time to make something usable as I write all my web apps with Coldfusion on many other servers.

My question is that the server that will generate the PDF does not need to be accessed by http neither does it should be accessed on the internet... so the developer edition (free) seems perfect for me... but can I do that as it is a "production server" and a "production usage" not a "developer one" waiting to be transfered on a production server ?

Thanks in advance.
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obouillaudAuthor
Known Participant
July 16, 2007
I did 2 things :
- I installed the developer edition and try cfdocument... and its watermark
- I read the licence in details

Both makes me forget my initial idea. There won't be a coldfusion server on this computer. The licence is far too expensive just to execute one task each day... I will have to find another solution (who said php ? :-).

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craigkaminsky
Inspiring
July 13, 2007
Thanks for clarifying Ian...I updated all my local development machines to CF8 and wasn't able to check.

Appreciate it.
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Anonymous
July 14, 2007
"Developer Version" means a version of the Software, so identified, to be used internally only and solely for the purposes of design, development and evaluation."

So, you can see that obouillaud's use is in violation of the license and developer should not be used in that manner. You can view license.txt in the cfusionmx root directory.
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craigkaminsky
Inspiring
July 13, 2007
Phil:

Isn't it the DevNet edition the only one that puts watermarks on PDFs via the meta tag (<meta name="ColdFusionMXEdition" content="ColdFusion DevNet Edition - Not for Production Use.">) because it's a development version but has no IP restrictions?

I might have misread obouillaud's post but thought he mentioned having the (standard) developer edition. I didn't think that one watermarked PDFs because it restricts access to 2 IP addresses (localhot/127.0.0.1 and two others), which would, I think, make it unusable even in a widespread intranet environment.

Not sure exactly which developer edition was referred to in the above post but just wanted to note this just in case.

Cheers,
Craig
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paross1
Participating Frequently
July 13, 2007
When I had the standard development version loaded on my PC, back in April 2005, I got the watermark on my PDF output which stated:

Macromedia ColdFusion MX 7 Developer Edition
Not for Production Use

However, since I no longer am using a development version anywhere, I can't be certain that this has not since changed.

Phil
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paross1
Participating Frequently
July 13, 2007
It seems to me that if you are willing to live with the restrictions that come with the developer version, and your use doesn't violate the EULA, then you should be OK. However, you should be aware that PDF generated by cfdocument from the development version will contain a watermark that indicates that it is a development version, so that may be a "deal killer".

Phil
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