Coldfusion Development Edition License Issue

Report · May 12, 2008

I have 4 developers in house but only 2 can get connection because of the 2 IP License limitation of the Coldfusion Development Server edition. Do you know how can I fix that? Do I have to buy another version for the dev environment?

I would appreciate your help in this matter.

Report · May 12, 2008

jimmyor wrote:
> I have 4 developers in house but only 2 can get connection because of the 2 IP
> License limitation of the Coldfusion Development Server edition. Do you know
> how can I fix that?

Have every developer install the developer edition on his own workstation.

Jochem

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Jochem van Dieten
Adobe Community Expert for ColdFusion

Report · May 12, 2008

I do not think, that solution will work because I have a lot of websites connected locally with IIS (localhost) and MS SQL Databases; therefore I will have to create a lot of DB connections for every Coldfusion DEVELOPER. :(

Any other solution out there?

Report · May 13, 2008

It's probably worth bearing in mind that the licence is for a developER not
"for development" (ie: a shared development server). The intent is for the
Developer Edition to be installed on the local PC of the developer.

I don't that this should be a problem. You don't need a separate DB for
each developer, or even a separate DB login. Provided they can make a
TCP/IP connection between their dev PC and the DB server, they can all have
DSNs using the same DB credentials.

IIS is a bit more of a pain on adev type machine (which is probably running
desktop rather than server software), because IIS is limited to one website
at a time. It's moderately easy to get around this restriction though, or
really not so hard to reconfigure the single website anyhow. I would hope
it's not like your developers are working on all these different website
simultaneously.

If poss, I'd be changing to Apache in this case, as it allows as many
websites as one likes. I realise this is not always possible, though.

Or, if you *must* have a centralised development server: you need to buy
the appropriate licence, unfortunately.

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Adam

Report · May 14, 2008

Thank you for your help. It seems like everything is pointing to buy a new license. We have a centralized DEV server with IIS, Coldfusion connected with a remote SQL server.

If we have currently a license for the Online server, why should we buy another license? I know is the only option, however, it does not make any sense to me. Don't you think?

Report · May 14, 2008

jimmyor wrote:
>
> If we have currently a license for the Online server, why should we buy
> another license? I know is the only option, however, it does not make any sense
> to me. Don't you think?
>

Because that is the way you want to configure your shop. And because
there are dishonest people out there.

Allaire nee Macromedia nee Adobe: You have only one license for
ColdFusion why are your running 13 web serviers.

Dishonest Citizen: Oh only that one is 'production' those other 12 are
our 'centralized development' servers.

I.E. if it was not locked down it would be circumvented.

I think you are over estimating how difficult it is for each developer
to have their own CF server. You don't have to give up your other
centralized features.

Each developer CF server can easily connect to the one remote database
server. Creating and sharing DSN configurations are not hard manually,
sharing the dsn xml files and or creating CAR archives and installing on
each machine.

Each developer CF serve can use a centralized file server as the web
root|source directory so the code is actually centralized though it
might be executed by 4 different servers at any given time.

IIS can also be configured remotely if you would like everybody to use a
common web server which could also be the common file server. But this
would be a bit weird and unusual. But it is technically possible. You
would just need to use ports or host headers to create a differnt IIS
website for each developer that connects remotely to their development
CF server.

I really don't recommend that last suggestion but it is there.

P.S. The developer version of CF is restricted to two IP addresses and
th local host..... wink wink nudge nudge.

Report · May 14, 2008

> If we have currently a license for the Online server, why should we buy
> another license? I know is the only option, however, it does not make any sense
> to me. Don't you think?

Adobe give CF away free for developers to work on their own machines. I
think this is fairly generous, given the licence is not hamstrung in any
functional way: the developer can install the ENTERPRISE version of CF if
they want, and develop their code using all the features CF Enterprise
affords (that's a lot of features). This model is fairly well defined, and
shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone planning a development / production
environment.

You have chosen - and, to be frank, I think it's a poor decision - to
configure your development environment in a way that the developer
licensing model doesn't work. This is entirely up to you, and the licence
costs your decision requires are 1) reasonable; and b) a result of your
decision.

No-one's stopping you from remodeling your development environment to take
advantage of the free model Adobe offers. You simply are choosing not to.
It's your choice.

You reap what you sow.

That's what I think.

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Adam

Report · May 14, 2008

jimmyor wrote:
> I do not think, that solution will work because I have a lot of websites
> connected locally with IIS (localhost) and MS SQL Databases; therefore I will
> have to create a lot of DB connections for every Coldfusion DEVELOPER. :(

That's not hard, it just takes some time. If that time is cheaper then a
CF license install CF everywhere, if it isn't buy a license.

Jochem

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Jochem van Dieten
Adobe Community Expert for ColdFusion

Report · May 13, 2008

Your other option is to purchase a copy of CF Standard or Enterprise for your dev environment.