Brad Melendy

I’ve had this happen on multiple occasions and it isn’t after 30 days either. Most recently, (about 30 minutes ago I might add) a production enterprise server that has been running as with an Enterprise License for two years, crashed and when it restarted, it was a developer edition.

Ok, so now my public facing server has a limit of three concurrent IP addresses, not good. I quickly grab my list of Enterprise serial numbers but uh oh, I can’t log in to the administrator because the rest of the world is trying to hit the server! So I must restart CF and refresh my browser over and over until I beat the rest of the planet to acquire one of my three precious IP slots. Lucky for me I get in, re-apply my serial numbers and I’m back in business.

As to why this happens, I have no idea. I googled and didn’t come up with much (or every time I used the phrase “reverts to developer edition” I got entries talking about what happens after a 30 day trial. At any rate, it seems to happen to me about once every 1-2 years. It always annoys but not enough to make me say things like, “I’m switching to .NET or J2EE”. I suppose those servers have their own issues just as CF has, but the spontaneous reversion to developer edition is indeed a bad one because it renders your server useless.