Free ColdFusion Development Licenses with version 9
Comments(2) We are finally upgrading to version 9 of Adobe Coldfusion and I was pleasantly pleased to find out thaasdft we no longer need to purchase additional enterprise licenses for our development and test servers. According to the new license agreement distributed with Coldfusion 9, if you buy a license you can apply the license for an internal development, test or staging instance server:
3.1.3 If Licensee purchases one or more Production Software licenses, then Adobe also grants Licensee the right to install and use the Software as Development Software for internal development, testing and staging.
This is great because in the past, we had practiced buying a full license for our development environment even though we only ever hit the server with a dozen or so developers. Occasionally we would perform some load testing and fake lots of users with software, but still it was always on an enterprise server that resided behind the firewall (not accessible by the outside world).
Adobe will surely lose a little money here, but hopefully it attracts more customers with this improved pricing which will make up the difference and then some, not to mention the added benefit of expanding the user base of ColdFusion.