Open Source Version of BlueDragon Coming this Year!

Posted At : March 10, 2008 5:56 PM | Posted By : Mary Jo
Related Categories: CFWebstore,ColdFusion

Here's some exciting news for CFWebstore users that want to run their own servers, be it VPS or dedicated. New Atlanta has announced that later this year they will be making the BlueDragon/J2EE version of their server open source. The latest versions of CFWebstore are fully compatible with this server, and should run flawlessly on it. What does this mean for you? Well, it means that you can purchase a VPS or dedicated server from any hosting company that you want to use, install a J2EE server like JBoss, install the open source BlueDragon server on it, along with a database server (like MySQL which is also open source), unzip CFWebstore and setup your datasource, etc. and away you go! Considering the licensing change with CF8 that made a VPS even more expensive than before, and the availability of other free web application scripting languages like PHP, Ruby, JSP, ASP.Net, etc. this is a really exciting advancement for the ColdFusion platform, and will certainly have a lot more people looking at NewAtlanta's offerings as well. Read more about it here:

New Atlanta News

and here:

Vince Bonfanti's Weblog

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Hi Mary Jo,

well, we are not so far away from a similar step :-) In my opinion it was a wise step for BD to go open source.

Gert

# Posted By Gert Franz | 3/11/08 5:15 AM

Well, excited to hear that Gert. You know I am a big fan of Railo and hope to get CFWebstore running 100% compatible on it eventually. With ecommerce applications like mine that have a lot of database hits per page, you really notice how FAST Railo is (wicked fast!)

# Posted By Mary Jo Sminkey | 3/11/08 3:04 PM

Here's a follow-up post from Vince answering some of the common questions and concerns about this new open-source BD version. It does look like New Atlanta has really thought this through and is prepared to make it a success.

http://blog.newatlanta.com/index.cfm?mode=entry&am...

# Posted By Mary Jo Sminkey | 3/16/08 11:51 AM

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