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February 19, 2008

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Is it possible to get permission to build and release a Live CD that includes a default ColdFusion Developer edition install on it? Or a VMWare image?

This would open a lot of possibilities for evangelizing and testing.

5 Comments

  1. Adam Howitt said:

    on February 19, 2008 at 3:18 pm

    I was asking for permission to do the same with Amazon EC2 to spin up a CF server on Amazon’s hardware for testing but it all went quiet after some initial Adobe interest.

  2. brian said:

    on February 19, 2008 at 3:34 pm

    Adam – who did you talk to at Adobe? I understand it’s kind of a slippery slope but honestly, so long as you’re distributing it in its stock form without a license key, does it really matter that you’re not downloading it straight from Adobe.com? All we need is a disclaimer of warranty so Adobe isn’t on the hook to support a custom release. This is a way to get people playing with it which eventually leads to the almighty metric of sales!

  3. tony petruzzi said:

    on February 19, 2008 at 7:28 pm

    this has been brought up numerous times in the past. Fact is, this will never happen. Adobe is not going to “give away” a $1500 product and using the developer edition is basically not worth the effort.

    It’s been suggested in the past that the only way to produce a live cd is to use either Railo or BD.

  4. Randy said:

    on February 20, 2008 at 7:31 am

    How are they giving away a 1500 project if there is no license key. The developer edition can be converted over to a full version by entering in or uploading the license key. I think that is all people are asking for. If I want to test the latest version of CF all I would need is the developer version or if I wanted to out CF all I would need is the developer version.

    -Randy

  5. brian said:

    on February 20, 2008 at 8:51 am

    @Tony, Adobe wouldn’t be giving anything away that they aren’t giving away today. I want the ability to install the developer edition, the same exact thing you can download today from Adobe and install with no charge, onto a Live CD for evangelizing and testing. Read the details on Adobe’s site:

    http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/editions/#s3

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