[Pansophy] [EXTERNAL] Differences between ColdFusion Enterprise and Standard - Charlie Arehart

[Bobby Lawrence]

Interesting...some of the things in that PDF I didn't even know as far as licensing goes and I had to double-check the CF licensing agreement.

For example....licensing is based on the number of cores and each license is good for at most 2 cores.  We (MIS) have 4 servers (2 dev and 2 prod) and each server has 4 cores each.  However, we only pay for 4 licenses (instead of 8).  Turns out this is ok because, according to the licensing agreement under certain circumstances, production licenses can be used on dev/staging/test without the need for another license.  Out of our 4 licenses, they cover our 2 production servers.  But since we bought more than 1, it can also be used for 1 of our dev/staging/test servers.
Also - according to this, you guys have only needed 1 license of Enterprise....because that same license would cover both your production and development servers.  So you have been overpaying (palm-to-face)...
If you guys switch to CF Standard (since you don't think you need to be on Enterprise), we may be able to share licenses somehow.  I dont think we need 2 dev/staging/test servers and if we only had 2 production (4 core) servers, 1 dev/staging/test and you guys had 1 production (1 core) and 1 dev/staging/test, I think we would only need 5 licenses total.
4 for our production use (2 server, 4 core)
1 for your production use (1 server, 1 core)
This would give us the ability to use 2 of these standard licenses for dev use (1 for us, 1 for you)....

Anyway - like I wrote you in Teams....ColdFusion2023 is set to be released in the first half of 2023 and licensing now doesn't give you the free upgrade option so any upgrades have to have new licenses paid for.  If we upgrade to CF2021 now, we wouldn't be able to upgrade to CF2023 unless we pay for I (again).  So I'm thinking we should wait until CF2023 gets released, then we all upgrade to that....(ColdFusion 2023 Standard).  From what I've read, the release will probably like Q2 so we may have to wait until April/May/June....

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