![]() Once again, we reviewed the EULA, there is a lot of mention of Internal Network but most of it relates to Development or Staging Software. All because a company doesn’t want to host a server in house.Įveryone is just shaking their heads. Lets say the system goes another 4 years before a server and software upgrade without a price increase, that will be US$56,000 for the US$9,500 enterprise product with half the cores. I am sure they will increase that every year with some sort of review. And on top of that it is per year, so every year they keep the system running, will cost an additional US$14,000. They came back with a price in the US$14,000 ball park for 4 cores, approximately $3,500 per core. So apparently there is a third pricing model called “per virtual core metric”. You may also purchase ColdFusion Enterprise Edition on a per virtual core metric to deploy ColdFusion on the cloud or VMs. ColdFusion can also be used for development at no cost with the complimentary Developer Edition, a full-featured server for development use only. More searching the web finds a single line in the ColdFusion FAQ ( ) under the Pricing, editions, and upgrading section.Īdobe ColdFusion (2021 release) is sold in two editions: Standard Edition costs US$2,499 per two cores, and Enterprise Edition costs US$9,499 per eight cores. So some more back and forwards with Adobe only to find out that the normal Enterprise Edition License that you can buy from the website also cannot be installed in the cloud. Not ideal, nearly twice what was budgeted for, but that could be done. They would only need a single license at US$9,499.00 per full license. But since Enterprise Edition is for up to 8 cores. Okay so, they would have to move ColdFusion 2021 Enterprise Edition. We searched the web and could not find any mention about not being allowed on Azure. We went back and looked at the EULA again and the words “Cloud”, “Azure” and “AWS” are never even mentioned in the document. They specifically stated that Standard Edition could not be installed on Azure and AWS. The first section is even titled “Take your applications to the cloud”. Even though they product page ( ) gives the appearance that it can. The client proceeded to contact Adobe about organising to purchase the software.Īdobe came back and said that ColdFusion 2021 Standard Edition cannot be installed in the Cloud. And since ColdFusion 2021 Standard edition requires a license for every 2 cores, we would require 2 ColdFusion 2021 Standard licenses to run the application. The virtual machine was to be setup as 4 core server as there was other applications required to run on the server. In each case the Development Software may only be accessed by Authorized Users over the Licensee’s Internal Network. “Development Software” means Software licensed solely for (a) internal development and testing and (b) for use on a Staging Server, when Licensee is using the Software with respect to a valid license to the Production Software. Section 1.8 says staging server uses license in respect to the production software. Specifically looking for information regarding the Staging Server License. So, we reviewed the Adobe ColdFusion 2021 EULA ( ). The new setup was to have a Production Server and a Staging Server, both of which where private Azure VM server are only accessible by employees that have access to the Azure AD this is not a system that has any public access. This will be the 4th or 5th version of ColdFusion used for the system, so it averages an upgrade every 4 or 5 years. ![]() ![]() It isn’t a very complex system but does integrate with some other applications. The current system runs on Adobe ColdFusion Server 2016 Standard Edition with a Microsoft SQL Server back end. The current application is used by approximately 100 employees and is used inhouse only. It is 2022, so they may as well host everything in the Cloud, makes senses and what better time to do it then we you have to set up all the systems. The new company have decided to move all the infrastructure from inhouse hosted systems to a Microsoft Azure hosted system. So, they are going through the process of separating the parts of the business and moving the applications and network to the new entity. Recently they sold the one divisions that uses the application to another company. We have a client that we have been developing and maintaining an application for since the year 2000, one of oldest clients. We have been developing ColdFusion applications for over 20 years and I cannot believe what I am seeing with the Adobe ColdFusion 2021 pricing.
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