64Bit Support only for Enterprise - Edition ?

Report · Apr 10, 2008

All world is going 64 bit. We too; buying 64bit Xeon, 8 Core as hosting environment.

But was does CF do ?
Support this normal plattform only on base of the enterprise edition. Seems to be a nice thought to get all people to upgrade to this plattform and spend about 6000€ for this feature. We are having 5 licences and having a lot of competitors, which are working with php and therefor spend no money on licences. Our business model has no opportunities to get this money back.
Therefor we will have to look after other opportunities in the future, to get our 64bit machines run as fast as they can.

I´m interested, how other companies will do to get 64bit - support.
Thanks a lot for many interesting answers to this questions. Might be, that Adobe is changing it´s way therefor.

Report · Apr 10, 2008

I agree with ckv60, I can't believe Adobe did this. This is equivalent to making all past versions of the Standard edition 16-bit and only the Enterprise edition 32-bit.

Report · Apr 10, 2008

JerryGB wrote:
> I agree with ckv60, I can't believe Adobe did this. This is equivalent to making all past versions of the Standard edition 16-bit and only the Enterprise edition 32-bit.

Do we know that Adobe did this?

I understand that when similar comments are made about the native Oracle
DBMS driver only being available in Enterprise, it is because the
licenses Adobe pays Oracle make it prohibitively expensive to include it
in the Standard version.

I would like to know a bit more about the reasons behind the decision
before condemning Adobe for it.

Report · Apr 10, 2008

They did not, it was 32-bit everywhere. I was just making an analogy.

Like I said in the different thread on the same subject, they should have included the 32-bit version of any 3rd-party driver where the cost is an issue, Adobe would explained why and we would understand.

After all the 64-bit version still includes the following 32-bit components: DataDirect Drivers, Verity Search functionality, and ColdFusion .Net integration.

Report · Apr 10, 2008

As you see in the system description of adobe, they mention the 64bit support only for the enterprise edition.

http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/pdfs/cf8_systemsupportmatrix.pdf