ColdFusion Backup & Disaster Recovery License

July 10 2008 3:26 AM by Adam
filed under ColdFusion (25 comments)

Did you know that you don't need to purchase additional ColdFusion 8 licenses for your backup and disaster recovery servers? The license agreement was updated and tweaked for ColdFusion 8 specifically to allow for warm-backups. As long as the additional server is not concurrently receiving traffic with its production counterpart, you don't need an additional license. Prior to ColdFusion 8, the license only allowed for cold-backups. It's a small change, but it may save your organization a few bucks.

From the ColdFusion 8 EULA (PDF):

2.3 Backup and Disaster Recovery. Licensee may make and install a reasonable number of copies of the Software (ColdFusion) for backup and archival purposes and use such copies solely in the event that the primary copy has failed or is destroyed, but in no event may Licensee use such copies concurrently with Production Software or Development Software. Licensee may also install copies of the Software in a Disaster Recovery Environment for use solely in disaster recovery and not for production, development, evaluation or testing purposes other than to ensure that the Software is capable of replacing the primary usage of the Software is case of disaster.

As far a licensing goes, I'm pretty pleased with the flexibility of ColdFusion's EULA. Unlike the rest of the industry, ColdFusion doesn't care about multi-cored CPUs and the Enterprise edition even allows for unlimited virtual machines. So go on, buy that 32-core CPU you've had your eye on. Heck, buy two. ColdFusion doesn't care.

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Sami Hoda wrote on 07/10/08 1:05 PM

Thanks Adam. Blogged about it yesterday here: http://www.bytestopshere.com/post.cfm/coldfusion-secret-let-out-disaster-recovery-at-no-extra-cost. I'll point people here for further clarification.

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Prior to ColdFusion 8, the license only allowed for cold-backups. It's a small change, but it may save your organization a few bucks.
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